Lady Gaga is set to become the world’s most popular Twitter user by taking over fellow pop star Britney Spears as the website’s most followed.
Gaga recorded 5,635,460 followers earlier today, while Spears had 5,646,028, according to Famecount.com, a social media statistics service.
If this trend continues, the singer of hits such as “Poker Face” and “Telephone” should surpass Spears by Thursday or Friday this week.
Spears’ brief run at the top of Twitter began less than three months ago, when she overtook actor Ashton Kutcher for the top spot.
Gaga is the most popular entity online with 5.6 million Twitter followers, 16 million Facebook friends and YouTube popularity, but the singer’s Twitter crown is far from secure.
Teen singer Justin Bieber added 800,000 new Twitter followers in the past month to his existing 4.5 million and could pass Gaga within six months.
Ashton Kutcher now finds himself as Twitter’s third most followed with 5.57 million followers and chat show hostess Ellen DeGeneres is fourth with 5.07 million followers.
US President Barack Obama has broken the 5 million barrier and his following of 5.05 million sees him in fifth place.
Justin Bieber is sixth overall but is being hotly pursued by Kim Kardashian in seventh who has a following of 4.5 million.
Talk show legend Oprah Winfrey is at number eight with a following of just over 4 million and singer Taylor Swift is close on breaking that barrier herself at nine with 3.97 million followers.
Completing the top 10 is singer John Mayer who has 3.6 million followers.
Singer Katy Perry, actress Ashley Tisdale and television presenter Ryan Seacrest are all close to Mayer’s total and could break into the top 10 soon.
