--- 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2430 og:image:height: 1367 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Katy Perry Just Became the First Person to Reach 100 Million Twitter Followers > Sponsored content. 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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"}}]}] ```