Lady Gaga Surpasses Britney Spears with Most Twitter Followers

Lady Gaga performs as part of Lollapalooza 2010 at Grant Park on Aug. 6, 2010 in Chicago, Illinois. (Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images)

Lady Gaga has overtaken Britney Spears as having the most followers in the world on Twitter as of Saturday evening.

Lady Gaga, born Stefani Germanotta, on Monday had more than 5,755,385 followers on Twitter while Spears had only 5,709,102.

She tweeted her “…inaugural message (sent while changing backstage at The Monster Ball in Tacoma) from Tween Gaga” after she accomplished the feat on Saturday.

“Hello world, this is Lady Gaga, Queen of Twitter,” she said amid Disney-like dubbed sounds as she twirled a wand backstage in a YouTube.com video that had 371,000 views on Monday.

“Thank you for beginning my reign as Twitter queen.”

Other people with more than five million Twitter followers include Ellen DeGeneres, President Barack Obama, and Ashton Kutcher.

Lady Gaga, a 24-year-old New York City native, added that she would not take part in “celebrity online shenanigans.”