<P> This list contains the top 50 accounts with the largest number of followers on the social media platform Twitter . As of October 11, 2018, the most followed person is American singer Katy Perry, with over 107 million followers . Her account was the first to exceed 100 million followers, in June 2017 . </P> <P> On July 12, 2018, Twitter purged locked accounts--those disabled due to suspicious activity--from follower - count tallies . Consequently, Twitter's own account took 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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