Last Update: March 30, 2023, 18:27 IST
Musk paid $44 billion to buy Twitter last year.
The $44 billion deal for the platform appears to have gotten Musk some of his money back.
Twitter’s acquisition has helped its CEO Elon Musk He has become the world’s most followed person on the platform as Chief Tweet on Thursday dethroned former US President Barack Obama as the most followed person on Twitter.
The billionaire, who bought Twitter for $44 billion last year, now has 133,068,709 followers compared to Obama’s 133,042,819, according to the follower count.
Top celebrities like Justin Bieber with over 113 million Twitter followers and Katy Perry with over 108 million followers are at the third and fourth most followed places respectively.
Musk reached the 100 million follower-mark in June last year and his popularity has grown tremendously since then.
While Obama rarely tweets, especially to promote a major social cause or highlight his work as US President, Musk tweets left, right and center on almost all the topics trending in the world. Use to do it.
Musk said in February that he was making his Twitter account private to see if it improved reach.
“Made my account private until tomorrow morning so you can see more of my private tweets than my public tweets,” he posted.
This meant that only his followers could see the billionaire’s tweets and no one was able to retweet Musk’s tweets.
This comes amid complaints from users that their tweets are not being viewed by as many people as before.
Musk later removed the private setting from his account.
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