<P> This list contains the top 50 accounts with the largest number of followers on the social media platform Twitter . As of 2 August 2018, the most followed person is American singer Katy Perry, with close to 107 million followers . Her account was the first to exceed 100 million followers, in June 2017 . </P> <P> On July 9, 2018, news media reported that Twitter had announced an extensive purge of fake / bot followers . Consequently, a few days later, Twitter's own account had taken the fastest and greatest plunge out of all the top 50 accounts, from 63 million to 55 million followers, and in ranking, from 11th to 16th place . </P>

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