Katy Perry Becomes First #Twitter User to Reach 60 Million Followers

U.S. singer-songwriter Katy Perry has become the first Twitter user to be followed by more than 60 million people on the network, reaching the total over the weekend.

Perry was also the first Twitter user to reach 50 million followers, and it took her just 289 days to move from 50 to 60 million followers.

Indeed, her pace has been increasing of late; she accumulated her latest million in a little over two weeks.

Perry wasn’t always Twitter’s most popular user.