Anne Curtis took the no. 1 spot with 8.44 million Twitter followers.
Kapamilya actress Anne Curtis is the most followed account in the Philippines with 8.44 million Twitter followers as of December 2016.
Philippines was ranked as the second highest number of Twitter users in Asia and the sixth highest in the world, reports comScore, Inc.
Because of this, Twitter released its first #YearOnTwitter (#YOT) in the Philippines report on Tuesday, December 6, 2016.
The Kapamilya actress Anne Curtis topped as the most followed celebrity on Twitter. She took the no.1 1 spot with 8.44 million Twitter followers while tracking closely at no. 2 is Angel with 8.38 million followers.
As the result was released by Twitter, it revealed that 8 other Kapamilya stars are in the list and only 2 Kapuso stars just made it to the top 20.
The actor and comedian Vice Ganda took the 3rd spot as the most followed Filipino on Twitter.
The 8 Kapamilya stars are: Vice Ganda (8.17 million), Kathryn Bernardo (6.57 million), Yeng Constantino (6.19 million), Bianca Gonzalez (5.71 million), Daniel Padilla (5.57 million), Luis Manzano (5.26 million), KC Concepcion (5.12 million), and Vhong Navarro (5.07 million).
Two Kapuso stars are Maine Mendoza at no. 14 with 4.22 million followers and Alden Richards at no. 19 with 3.88 million followers.
The reigning queen of the social media is no other than the Filipino celebrity Anne Curtis.
She was dubbed as “Twitter queen” for maintaining her spot as the no.1 spot of the most-followed celebrity in the country.
According to a report of Rappler, the Curtis has been the most followed Filipino celebrity since 2011, the same year she breached the one-million mark, another Filipino first.
Her Twitter account was created in March 2009. The result proves that the Philippines is really the social media capital of the world and we’ve got the stats to prove it.