--- title: Katy Perry Is First to Reach 100 Million Twitter Followers description: The 'Witness' singer just became the first person to gain 100 million followers on Twitter, setting a major new record. canonical: https://time.com/4821543/katy-perry-100-million-twitter/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-16T15:54:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:44:35.553Z og:title: Katy Perry Is First to Reach 100 Million Twitter Followers og:description: The 'Witness' singer just set a major new record og:url: https://time.com/4821543/katy-perry-100-million-twitter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt079edfc4690bc441/6988d2134ee2620bf530dc4b/katy-perry-witness.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: "Katy Perry - Witness World Wide" Exclusive YouTube Livestream Concert og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Katy Perry Is First to Reach 100 Million Twitter Followers twitter:description: The 'Witness' singer just set a major new record twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt079edfc4690bc441/6988d2134ee2620bf530dc4b/katy-perry-witness.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Katy Perry Just Became the First Person to Reach 100 Million Twitter Followers  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jun 16, 2017 3:54 PM UTC  Katy Perry performs at the "Witness World Wide" exclusive YouTube livestream concert on June 12, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. Katy Perry performs at the "Witness World Wide" exclusive YouTube livestream concert on June 12, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.Jason LaVeris—FilmMagic  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jun 16, 2017 3:54 PM UTC Katy Perry just keeps [soaring in popularity](http://time.com/4818752/katy-perry-on-award-shows/). On Friday, the _Witness_ singer and [pop culture lightning rod](http://time.com/4814241/katy-perry-responds-to-critics-who-accused-her-of-cultural-appropriation/) became the first person to reach 100 million followers on Twitter, making her the most-followed person on the platform, Twitter reports. Perry joined Twitter back in 2009, making her something of an early adopter as a celebrity. Since then, she’s been an active user, sending out over 8,500 tweets in her time on the service; that’s about a thousand each year. She’s also been at the center of many memorable conversations and pop culture moments on the platform, from the 2015 Super Bowl’s viral [“Left Shark” debacle](http://time.com/4651147/super-bowl-halftime-show-controversial/item/2015-katy-perrys-left-shark-goes-rogue/) during her performance to her participation in the [2016 election.](http://time.com/4559589/hillary-clinton-katy-perry-roar-campaign-ad/) Intriguingly, Perry’s most popular tweets are all mentions or shout-outs to fellow artists or celebrities that she’s thrown her support behind, including messages expressing love for One Direction, Niall Horan, [Justin Bieber](http://time.com/4816510/justin-bieber-water-bottle-despacito/), Ariana Grande, [Demi Lovato](http://time.com/4754279/demi-lovato-perform-time-100-gala/), and Hillary Clinton. Her most popular tweet ever, a 2012 missive requesting that One Direction perform at MTV’s Video Music Awards, garnered more than 132 thousand retweets. This year, her tweet sending prayers to Ariana Grande following the [Manchester tragedy](http://time.com/4805251/ariana-grande-manchester-benefit-concert-fundraising/) was retweeted 72 thousand times. Her first tweet was about traveling to Berlin — and joining the platform. > [](https://twitter.com/katyperry/status/243835619770519552) > [](https://twitter.com/katyperry/status/866788728651513857) > [](https://twitter.com/katyperry/status/1232852860) Perry has long used Twitter to drum up support for her projects, from [launching a global scavenger](http://time.com/4663794/katy-perry-chained-to-the-rhythm/) hunt to promote her single “Chained to the Rhythm” to interacting directly with fans [who baked cherry pies](http://time.com/4756181/katy-perry-cherry-pie/) in the lead-up to the release of her song “Bon Appetit.” This week, she’s been busy retweeting fan’s messages about the new album and promoting her upcoming world tour. She also features on a brand-new song from [Calvin Harris](http://time.com/4785837/best-songs-2017-so-far/item/calvin-harris-slide/), “Feels.” > [](https://twitter.com/Twitter/status/875730516783185920) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4821543/katy-perry-100-million-twitter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4821543/katy-perry-100-million-twitter/"},"headline":"Katy Perry Just Became the First Person to Reach 100 Million Twitter Followers","datePublished":"2017-06-16T15:54:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:44:35.553Z","description":"The 'Witness' singer just became the first person to gain 100 million followers on Twitter, setting a major new record.","url":"https://time.com/4821543/katy-perry-100-million-twitter/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","viral","twitter","Katy Perry"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt079edfc4690bc441/6988d2134ee2620bf530dc4b/katy-perry-witness.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt079edfc4690bc441/6988d2134ee2620bf530dc4b/katy-perry-witness.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"\"Katy Perry - Witness World Wide\" Exclusive YouTube Livestream Concert","caption":"\"Katy Perry - Witness World Wide\" Exclusive YouTube Livestream Concert","creditText":"Jason LaVeris—FilmMagic","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4821543/katy-perry-100-million-twitter/","name":"Katy Perry Just Became the First Person to Reach 100 Million Twitter Followers"}}]}] ```