Elon Musk currently owns the Twitter account with the most followers worldwide.
According to data from Social Blade, a US-based social media analytics website, the Twitter account of the Twitter CEO had 146.31 million followers as of July 4, 2023.
Elon Musk's follower count even surpassed that of Barack Obama, who held the top spot last year. The former US president currently has 132.21 million followers on his Twitter account.
In third place is Canadian singer Justin Bieber, with 112.08 million Twitter followers.
Next is Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo, with 108.85 million followers on the blue bird app.
Several world-class singers also made the list of Twitter accounts with the most followers, including Rihanna, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, and Ariana Grande.
Here are the top 10 Twitter accounts with the most followers worldwide as of July 4, 2023:
1. @elonmusk: 146,315,020 followers
2. @BarackObama: 132,219,426 followers
3. @justinbieber: 112,085,714 followers
4. @Cristiano: 108,859,067 followers
5. @rihanna: 108,194,865 followers
6. @katyperry: 107,427,334 followers
7. @taylorswift13: 93,272,842 followers
8. @narendramodi: 89,844,627 followers
9. @realDonaldTrump: 86,730,374 followers
10. @ArianaGrande: 85,268,269 followers
Elon Musk has recently implemented a new policy for his social media platform, limiting the number of tweets users can read per day.
This was announced by Elon Musk in a tweet on his Twitter account. "@elonmusk" stated on Sunday, July 2, 2023, "To address extreme data scraping & system manipulation, we've applied temporary limits."
Elon Musk stated that verified Twitter accounts are limited to reading 10,000 posts per day, unverified accounts to 1,000 posts per day, and new unverified users to 500 posts per day.
Besides limiting the number of readable tweets, Elon Musk has implemented several controversial policies since acquiring Twitter in October 2022, ranging from firing Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, laying off 80% of his employees in April 2023, to requiring accounts with blue checkmarks to pay Twitter.