Katy Perry has taken the lead by passing Justin Bieber to become the most popular person on Twitter.
The 29-year-old singer presently has 2,000 more followers than Bieber, The Verge reported.
With 40 million followers, Lady Gaga, who was previously the queen of twitter, holds the number 3 slot, followed by President Barack Obama at 39 million and Taylor Swift at 36 million.
According to USA Today, even though Perry tweets a lot less than Bieber but she admitted that being part of her strategy by saying that she feels she has learnt how to tame the social media dragon.
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