Britney Spears Tops Google CEO as Most Followed Google Plus Member
Britney Spears recently became the most followed Google Plus member, beating the company’s CEO Larry Page by a little over 7,000 followers.
Spears currently has the highest amount of followers with 767,936, while Page, who runs the company that created the social networking service, trails behind with 760,331.
Spears allegedly took the lead this past Monday, according to technology publication PCMag.
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In just two months since the July launch of Google Plus, the reigning queen of pop gained 100,000 followers and quadrupled that number around 10 days later.
Spears follows one person for every 178 followers she gains.
Page hit 100,000 followers much quicker than the pop star, accomplishing the feat in just a month and a half.
Unlike Spears, he does not publish whom he adds to his own circle of users he follows on Google Plus
Page did hold a slight advantage, because he helped start the social networking service.
The Google Plus member with the third most followers is rapper Snoop Dogg with 655,513.
Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg ranks in fourth with 611,131.
Despite never sharing a single thing on the service, the world’s youngest billionaire seems to have one of the largest followings on a website that is technically his rival.
Former model and fashion icon Tyra Banks comes in a distant fifth with 544,187 followers.
Google Plus surpassed 40-million users, according to an announcement made by the company in October.
The service had a soft launch in June and officially opened up signups in late September.
This 40-million user number reflects total signups, not active Google Plus users. However, Google seems to be keeping that number concealed for now.
Some technology pundits are suggesting that Google’s decision to not unveil that number is because the actual user amount is a lot lower than the company would like to admit.
