On August 21, 2010, Lady Gaga surpassed Britney Spears as the most followed person on social networking site Twitter. As of today, Gaga has 7.5 million followers.

Gaga takes her followers beyond 5,667,000, becoming the first living person to have 10 million fans on Facebook. She lingers behind only Michael Jackson in terms of popularity, beating the actor Vin Diesel and Barack Obama into 6th and 9th places respectively.

She also tops Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, making her the most popular person – living or dead – across the main social media sites, according to Famecount.com 

Gaga herself sends an inaugural message to all of her Little Monsters as the newly crowned Queen of Twitter, live from backstage at The Monster Ball in Tacoma!