Los Angeles June 17 (IANS) Singer Katy Perry is officially the most followed person on Twitter after becoming the first person to reach 100 million followers on the micro-blogging site.
Using Perry s latest album Witness as reference the official Twitter account posted: Today we #WITNESS history. Congratulations Katy Perry the first to reach 100 million followers! #LoveKaty.
Twitter also posted congratulatory clip which previews some of Katy s top tweets over the years reports aceshowbiz.com.
Perry joined Twitter in 2009 and has been an active user since then. She reached 50 million followers by 2012. She is followed closely behind by singer Justin Bieber with 96.7 million followers and former US president Barack Obama with 90.8 million.
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Katy Perry reaches 100 million followers on Twitter
