The Real Madrid star is the first athlete to reach 200 million followers
across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and averages 135,000 new fans
across social media every single day
Cristiano Ronaldo has made history on social media by becoming the first
athlete to reach 200 million followers across Facebook, Instagram and
Twitter.
Ronaldo has 109.7m followers on Facebook, 49.6m on
Instagram and 40.7m on Twitter after a "meteoritic rise" in popularity,
according to social media tracking database Hookit,
The
Real Madrid star now boasts more followers than prominent past and
present NBA stars Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Kevin
Durant and Steph Curry's combined 187m.
(H/T to @darrenrovell)
Ronaldo
may have lost out to Lionel Messi to the Ballon d'Or in January but the
Portuguese easily trumps his long-time rival's 120.8m followers on
social media, though the Argentine does not have a Twitter account.
Hookit
also detail that Ronaldo saw nearly one billion interactions on social
media last year and added 41.8m new followers, the majority of whom came
from Instagram.
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