( CNN ) -- Lady Gaga and President Obama do n't often travel in the same circles , but they 're the top competitors in a popularity contest that could have one of them setting a record by this weekend . Facebook publicists told CNN on Thursday that the pop star and the president are neck-and-neck in the race to become the first living person with more than 10 million fans on the social networking site . As of early Friday , Obama was in the lead , with 9,058,881 fans . Lady Gaga trailed behind with 9,023,966 . Both of them were more than 4 million fans behind the No . 1 individual , Michael Jackson , who had 13,285,811 . The singer died a year ago . Obama 's page , which is run by the group Organizing for America , includes photographs of his recent Gulf Coast visit and links to speeches from news conferences . His page lists the president 's interests as `` basketball , writing , spending time w/ kids '' and says his favorite books include The Bible , Toni Morrison 's `` Song of Solomon '' and Shakespeare 's tragedies . Lady Gaga 's page lists upcoming concerts and includes a biographical article describing how the 24-year-old pop star , who played piano by ear as a toddler , grew into a theatrical performer who wows the masses with flashy performances in international concert tours . `` I 'm just trying to change the world one sequin at a time , '' she says in the posted story . Facebook says it has more than 400 million active users . The unofficial popularity contest comes about a year after another internet milestone : a race to attract 1 million followers on the Twitter micro-blogging site . Actor Ashton Kutcher narrowly beat out CNN , reaching the goal 30 minutes before CNN passed the mark . Kutcher challenged CNN to the competition , saying he would donate 10,000 mosquito bed nets to charity for World Malaria Day in late April if he beat CNN , and 1,000 if he lost . CNN agreed to donate 20,000 nets . CNN 's JD Cargill contributed to this report .
President and movie star are top competitors in Facebook fan ##dom . One of them could become the first living person with more than 100 million Facebook fans . Michael Jackson has more than 13 million fans on site . Social networking site Facebook it has more than 400 million active users .