Lady Gaga becomes World's top Twitterer

Later today Lady Gaga is expected to confirm her status as the hottest star on the planet, when she becomes the world's most popular Twitter user, according to Famecount.com, the social media statistics service.

At 10:30am GMT the star recorded 5,635,460 followers, versus current Twitter Queen, Britney Spears, at 5,646,028. At current rates of follower growth, Lady Gaga is set to storm past Britney today or, at latest, tomorrow. Lady Gaga's surging popularity brings Britney's reign at the top to a brief end - she only claimed the Twitter crown from Ashton Kutcher less than 3 months ago. At that time Famecount.com had forecast that Lady Gaga would soon usurp Britney.

The milestone further cements Lady Gaga's status as the world's most popular star online. On 25th June she overtook Obama to became the world's most popular living person on Facebook, and currently claims over 16m fans on the network. On an aggregated basis across Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, Famecount.com can also confirm that Lady Gaga is now by far the most popular entity online.