Musk pips Obama to become most-followed person on Twitter

The Twitter acquisition has helped its CEO Elon Musk become the world’s most adopted person on the platform, because the Chief Twit on Thursday dethroned former US President Barack Obama as essentially the most adopted person on Twitter.

The billionaire who purchased Twitter for $44 billion final yr now has 133,068,709 followers, in contrast to Obama’s 133,042,819, in accordance to the follower counts.

Top celebrities like Justin Bieber with over 113 million Twitter followers and Katy Perry with over 108 million followers are on the third and fourth most-followed spots, respectively.

Musk reached the 100 million followers-mark in June final yr and since then, there was a meteoric rise in his recognition.

While Obamahardly tweets, particularly selling a key social trigger or highlighting his work because the US President, Musk retains tweeting left, proper and centre on almost all of the matters that pattern on the planet.

Musk in February mentioned he was making his Twitter account personal to see if it improves attain.

“Made my account personal till tomorrow morning to take a look at whether or not you may see my personal tweets greater than my public ones,” he posted.

This meant the one individuals ready to see the billionaire’s tweets have been his followers and nobody was ready to retweet Musk‘s tweets both.

It got here amid complaints from customers that their tweets weren’t being seen by as many individuals as they used to.

Musk later eliminated the personal setting from his account.

(With inputs from IANS)