This list contains the top 50 accounts with the most followers on the social media platform X, formerly and commonly known as Twitter. , Elon Musk, the owner of the website, has the most-followed account with over 236 million followers. He partially acquired these followers through changing the code of the platform to promote his own posts more favorably.
Other notable figures such as Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Cristiano Ronaldo each have over 100 million followers. Katy Perry was the first person to surpass the 100 million follower milestone, in June 2017.
The following table lists the top 50 most-followed accounts on X, with each total rounded down to the nearest hundred thousand, as well as a profession of each account's holder. Some accounts post infrequently or are abandoned.
This is a historical list of the number-one most-followed account on X/Twitter. It includes the date of when the top spot was reached, the number of followers the account had at the time, and how long the top spot was held.