The data describes a ranking of the most followed Twitter accounts as of August 2018, sorted by the highest numbers of followers. During that month, singer Katy Perry's account @katyperry had 106.8 million followers. In comparison, former US President Barack Obama's account was followed by 102 million people.
Celebrities and Twitter
Founded in 2006, Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that allows users to post text-based status updates and messages of up to 280 characters in length. These messages are known as tweets.
