South African businessman and Twitter owner Elon Musk, He became the person with the most followers on his social network. from just over 133 million 051 thousand 274.
He First place went to former US President Barack Obama.who has approximately 133 million 042 thousand 626 subscribers, followed by singer Justin Bieber with just over 113 million “subscribers”.
On the other hand, the singer Katy Perry topped the list of women with the most followers followed by Rihanna, Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga.
Musk became the user with the most followers after announcing that only verified accounts are available from April 15, i.e. those that pay can be recommended to other users.
Musk posted a tweet on Tuesday announcing this new measure, which includes reorganization of the so-called “Twitter Blue”a qualification that applies to accounts that pay to verify them, and along with that they get a blue mark.
The magnate confirmed that this measure is the only real way to solve the problem. control of swarms of “bots” that interfere with the operation of the network through content automatically generated by computer programs.
Twitter’s value declines as Musk advances
The initiative came after Musk told his employees in an internal memo that the company’s value had fallen to $20 billion. less than half of the $44,000 he paid for the purchase last October.
The billionaire who, since joining Twitter, has cut almost a quarter of its staff and sold most of the furniture in the headquarters in San Francisco, can not help but lose a large number of advertisersthe company’s main source of income, and its new paid “Twitter Blue” doesn’t seem to have improved things either.
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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