Britney Spears Is Twitter QUEEN: Ashton Kutcher Loses His Top Spot (PICTURES)

Twitter has a new queen.

Britney Spears has pushed Ashton Kutcher out of his top spot on Twitter, successfully racking up more followers than even the "Twitter king" himself.

At the time of writing, Kutcher (@aplusk) has some 4,941,340 followers to Britney's 4,950,344 (she tweets at @BritneySpears). Spears surpassed Kutcher to become the most-followed Twitterer on the evening of May 23.

The celebrities take different approaches to their Twitter presence. While Kutcher tweets himself (usually multiple times a day), Spears' Twitter account is handled almost entirely by members of her staff, like her manager, Adam Leber. Spears tweets, on average, only several times each month, tagging posts she's written personally with "-Brit" or "-Britney."

Ashton made only brief mention of Britney's Twitter coup. He tweeted,

2nd most pop Q "What do U think about Brittney having more followers than u?" Answer "I don't care. Aren't u suppose 2B a movie reporter?"less than a minute ago via Brizzlyashton kutcher
aplusk

Twitter's other most-followed Tweeters are Ellen DeGeneres with some 4.6 million followers, Barack Obama with around 4 million followers, and Kim Kardashian with around 3.6 million followers.

Comments

[Cryostatic]

08:22 AM on 05/25/2010

This, among other reasons, is why Twitter needs to die.

[Tarich]

11:21 AM on 05/25/2010

I couldn't agree more. Die Twitter. Die. Please.

http://geekcomforts.com/2010/03/tweet-no-more/

[eXpresso]

03:15 AM on 05/25/2010

yes!!

[IfIonlyknew]

11:15 PM on 05/24/2010

That Pic. of Ashton Kutcher doesn't look like him.

[hopefull2008]

01:23 PM on 05/24/2010

It's going to be one of those questions that we will always know the answer to : Where were you when you first heard that Britney had passed Ashton in Twitter followers.

[Heopined]

12:42 PM on 05/24/2010

Perhaps the world is responding to the Awful Deluge of Hyper Marketing for Ashton's new loser movie "Killers". Any movie hyped that much is known to be a loser before release. The studio is just trying to keep the losses down to a moderatly embarassing level.

Also, why hasn't Ashton Kutcher lost all his friends in the biz, since he has burnt so many of them with his infantile Punk'd (hat on sideways, wow, how gangsta) show.

Isn't Ashton Kutcher too old to wear a gangsta hat sideways?

Oh, I see. Nobody cares. Never mind. Heh.

[ewj1]

11:05 AM on 05/24/2010

twitter dee and twitter dumb, enuf said

[Eris23]

10:53 AM on 05/24/2010

This article should be called "Dumb and Dumber" and in no way should it be in the Technology Section.

[PCPrincess]

10:27 AM on 05/24/2010

I know.. wow, people know she's not the main tweeter on her account and yet they flock to follow. Freaking insane if you ask me.

[crayola 08b]

10:23 AM on 05/24/2010

not surprising. poor girl has alot of time on her hands since lady gaga made her irrelevant.

[gimmeabreak444]

11:21 AM on 05/25/2010

yeah i hear googoo gaga is pretty big in the "alternative lifestyle" clubs.

[Alien Nation]

10:01 AM on 05/24/2010

Who cares about what either of these people have to say about anything? I know I sure don't. One sells crappy cameras the other sells crappy music.

[Wickenberg]

09:06 AM on 05/24/2010

What a bimbo! only clueless dumb masses follow her.