SA’s top Twitter accounts

 ·29 Sep 2014
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South Africa’s Twitter user with the most followers is online celebrity Caspar Lee, followed by cricketer AB de Villiers, and comedian Trevor Noah.

Twitter is one of the largest social networks in the world, with 271 million monthly active users and 500 million Tweets sent per day.

The influence of Twitter users is often measured by the number of followers they have, and here singer Katy Perry leads the race.

Perry currently has 57.5 million Twitter followers, followed by Justin Bieber with 54.9 million, and Barack Obama with 47 million.

South Africa’s top Twitter users

English-born South African vlogger, actor, and Internet personality Caspar Lee is South Africa’s top Twitter user with 1.92 million followers.

Lee is followed by comedian Trevor Noah with 1.56 million followers, and cricketer AB de Villiers with 1.41 million.

Twitter account Followers
@Caspar_Lee 1,920,000
@Trevornoah 1,560,000
@abdevilliers17 1,410,000
@Dalesteyn62 1,100,000
@NelsonMandela 979,000
@News24 803,000
@Bonang_M 764,000
@GarethCliff 756,000
@GraemeSmith49 699,000
@DJFreshSA 659,000
@SuperSportTV 616,000
@SuperSportBlitz 596,000
@Julius_S_Malema 538,000
@helenzille 491,000
@5FM 459,000
@dineoranaka 456,000
@SAPresident 336,000

This article was first published on MyBroadband.

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