Elon Musk becomes the most followed Twitter user, surpassing Barack Obama, Justin Bieber

According to the Guinness World Records, Twitter has about 450 million monthly active users. With over 133 million followers Elon MuskThe CEO has about 30% of all Twitter users following him.

Elon Musk took over at the helm of Twitter on October 27, 2022. At that time he had about 110 million users. Within five months, the number had grown to 133 million. He is the third most followed Twitter user after Barack Obama and Justin Bieber.

According to the stats tracker Social Blade, Obama has lost 267,585 followers and Bieber has lost 118,950 in the past 30 days. While Musk has gained more than 3 million, an average of more than 100,000 new followers per day.

After buying Twitter, he fired then-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal along with other Twitter employees. In an open letter, Elon Musk shared the reason behind his being in charge of Twitter. “The reason I have Twitter is because it is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital city square where many beliefs can be sanely debated without resorting to violence,” he said.

Since then, the CEO has introduced various changes to Twitter. Latest, the platform will begin removing old verified marks from non-Twitter Blue user accounts from April 1. The move comes as the company is moving towards a model where only people Paid subscriptions and members of new approved organizations have a verified stamp for their accounts.

Twitter accounts are now verified in three colors – Yellow for corporate, gray for government, blue for individuals (celebrity or not). All verified accounts will be manually validated before the check is activated.

The blue verification mark is now a feature of Twitter Blue subscriptions. In India, subscription is available for a monthly fee of $650 on the web and $900 on mobile devices.