Lady Gaga hits record 25 million followers on Twitter
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Lady Gaga further cemented her status as the reigning queen of pop culture by being the first Twitter user to surpass the 25 million mark Thursday.
The Telephone singer tweeted, "#25milliontweetymonsters wow! I'm officially feeling like the luckiest girl in the world today."
Gaga's meteoric rise to fame has been on a similar trajectory as the social networking blog, both emerging in the limelight three years ago and gaining popularity ever since.
For the sake of comparison, let's see how the singer -- who also was the first to the 10, 15 and 20 million follower milestones -- stacked up against other celebrities as of early Thursday:
Lady Gaga: 25 million followers
Justin Bieber: 22.5 million followers
Katy Perry: 20.4 million followers
Rihanna: 19.7 million followers
Britney Spears: 17.1 million followers
President Barack Obama: 16 million followers
Kim Kardashian: 14.8 million followers
Oprah Winfrey: 11.6 million followers
Paris Hilton: 7.3 million followers
Snooki: 5 million followers
