Lady Gaga has become the “queen of twitter” after she overtook Britney Spears as the person with the most followers on the micro-blogging site.

The Alejandro singer has attracted a staggering 5 735 554 people to her page compared to Britney’s 5 701 236.  And now Gaga has now posted a video link on her twitter account thanking fans for making her the most popular person on the site.

Addressing her fans as her “little monsters”, the pop star – who appears in a makeshift crown with a twitter logo on it and waves a magic wand in the video – says: “Hello world, this is Lady Gaga, queen of twitter. I wanted to thank all my beautiful little monsters for following me. Thank you for beginning my reign as twitter queen. I vow to always tweet and tweet again.”

The piece was shot backstage at a concert in Tacoma, Washington as the 24-year-old singer is currently on the North American leg of her Monster Ball Tour.

Gaga currently picks up new followers on twitter at an average of around 171,000 a week, according to website famecount.com which analysed the data.  But, she’d better watch out if she wants to keep her crown, teen pop sensation Justin Bieber is amassing an average 800,000 new followers each month and will be gunning for the top spot soon…

Yay! Congrats to Gaga, we’re certainly fans of her tweets…

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