Lady Gaga assumes reign as latest ‘Twitter queen’
August 23, 2010 - 10:00 am
NEW YORK -- Lady Gaga has surpassed Britney Spears as the most followed person on Twitter - for now. She has more than 5.7 million followers. She overtook Spears over the weekend and posted a video late Saturday on YouTube. Gaga called her fans her "little monsters" as she thanked them for beginning "my reign as Twitter queen."