( CNN ) -- Katy Perry is officially the queen of Twitter . The singer has reached more than 50 million followers on the social media site , making her the most followed person in the universe . Perry took the milestone in stride . `` Oh yeah AND we grew to 50 million Katycats ! Eh , regular day at the office , '' she tweeted ( of course ) . Not that Perry does n't have competition hot on her heels . Justin Bieber has about 49.4 million `` beliebers '' hanging on his every 140-character submission , while President Barack Obama has around 41.2 million followers . Lady Gaga has just over 41 million `` little monsters . '' The video site YouTube , Taylor Swift , Britney Spears , Rihanna , Instagram , and Justin Timberlake round out the rest of the top 10 most-followed Twitter accounts . Perry snagged the Twitter throne from Bieber in November . He , in turn , had earlier toppled Gaga , who for two years was the most followed person . In October she told USA Today that felt felt like she had `` learned how to tame that social media dragon . ''
Perry has more than 50 million Twitter followers . The Texas governor is a former CEO of the energy company and he was elected to Congress in 2012. The singer tweeted about the milestone .