Britney Spears sets Twitter record with 5 million followers

Pop princess Britney Spears has beaten off competition from all fellow celebrities to become the first person to have 5 million followers on the social networking website Tweeter online.The Toxic hitmaker overtook actor Ashton Kutcher, the first member to reach one million supporters, as the most popular celebrity on the forum last week and has now set a new record with a fan following of 5,015,346.Spears has thanked all fans for their support and invited devotees to send in their questions via her Twitter blog and she responded to them throughout the week.

"This is really amazing! I love you all! I better get busy writing 4,947,608 thank you notes! U guys make me so happy," she wrote on her Tweeter online page.The 28-year-old singer has an account on Twitter since 2008.Mega TweeterBritney spears has crushed all competition on Twitter.com - the pop princess has become the first person on the social networking site to garner more than 5 million followers.Britney Spears tweeted, “WOW!!!!! #1 on Twitter! Thank you…This is really amazing! I love you all! I better get busy writing 4,947,608 thank you notes! U guys make me sooo happy!”Brit thanked her fans by doing a Q&A on her Twitter page. Her followers bombarded her with questions about her tour, favorite “ sec and the City” character, and who she would like to collaborate with musically. The singer responded to quite a few of their inquiries. But better watch Lady Gaga who is soon catching up. Lady Gaga (@ LadyGaGa) currently has 4,249,607 supporters, that is not very far from achieving the second, or maybe very soon to the first, displacing Britney.