{"id":130177,"date":"2011-09-27T13:17:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T08:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=130177"},"modified":"2011-09-27T13:17:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T08:17:12","slug":"kim-kardashian-behind-lady-gaga-and-obama-in-number-of-twitter-followers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/09\/27\/kim-kardashian-behind-lady-gaga-and-obama-in-number-of-twitter-followers.html","title":{"rendered":"Kim Kardashian Behind Lady Gaga and Obama in Number of Twitter Followers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Kardashian (<strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/kimkardashian\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">@kimkardashian<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong>) has become the latest Twitter user to reach 10 million followers \u2014 she passed the total shortly before midday (EST) on Sept. 26, <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/alltwitter\/kim-kardashian-twitter-10-million_b14207\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">reports MediaBistro.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong>, &#8220;the unofficial Twitter resource.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kardashian joins Katy Perry, President Barack Obama, Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga as the fifth member of Twitter\u2019s 10 million club.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Kim.Kardashian.tweet_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-130178 aligncenter\" title=\"Kim.Kardashian.tweet\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Kim.Kardashian.tweet_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Kim.Kardashian.tweet_.jpg 400w, https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Kim.Kardashian.tweet_-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She celebrated reaching 10 million (how else) <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/KimKardashian\/status\/118352127100858368\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">with a tweet<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>, and followed this with a series of giveaways for her fans, all connected to the number ten.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Kim.Kardashian.tweets.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-130180 aligncenter\" title=\"Kim.Kardashian.tweets\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Kim.Kardashian.tweets.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Kim.Kardashian.tweets.jpg 400w, https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Kim.Kardashian.tweets-300x257.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Twitter\u2019s most-popular skews heavily towards North American female celebrity musicians, with seven of the top ten from that demographic. Eight if you count Bieber (and many do). Britney Spears should be the next user to reach the eight-figure mark.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, Twitter\u2019s top-ten most followed users are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Lady Gaga (@ladygaga, 13,880,702)<\/li>\n<li>Justin Bieber (@justinbieber, 12,873,333)<\/li>\n<li>Barack Obama (@barackobama, 10,240,477)<\/li>\n<li>Katy Perry (@katyperry, 10,137,959)<\/li>\n<li>Kim Kardashian (@kimkardashian, 10,000,146)<\/li>\n<li>Britney Spears (@britneyspears, 9,729,828)<\/li>\n<li>Shakira (@shakira, 8,695,191)<\/li>\n<li>Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13, 8,147,746)<\/li>\n<li>Rihanna (@rihanna, 7,793,813)<\/li>\n<li>Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk, @7,728,458)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Kardashian (@kimkardashian) has become the latest Twitter user to reach 10 million followers \u2014 she passed the total&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[24668,12463,12612],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}