Today (Thursday) Elon Musk removed former US President Barack Obama from the Twitter throne as the most followed on the social network.
Musk's followers reached 133,100,271, compared to 133,042,698 for Obama, who has long been the most followed on Twitter.
It is believed that Musk's acquisition of Twitter for $ 44 billion in late October helped him increase the number of his followers, especially after it became the talk of the hour on and off the social network since then.
However, Musk had a huge amount of followers even before his acquisition of Twitter, because he enjoyed other titles that made him the focus of many people's attention, as he maintained the title of the richest man in the world for a long time, before losing the title to (Bernard Arnault and his family), according to Forbes list.
Musk, who is now the second richest man in the world with a fortune of $193.6 billion, heads the electric car maker Tesla, SpaceX, the Boring underground tunneling company, and the space internet company. Starlink, solar energy company SolarCity, and neurotechnology company Neuralink.
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