2024-09-13 09:40:31
Published: 14:29, 13 September 2024 Updated: 14:41, 13 September 2024
At the beginning of this month, Cristiano Ronaldo made history as the only footballer in the history of football to reach the milestone of 900 goals. Today Friday (September 13) he made history through social media. He became the first athlete in the world to reach the milestone of 1 billion or 1 billion followers across all social media platforms.
He started the countdown to reach this milestone a day ago.
He recently opened a channel on YouTube. It got 15 million subscribers on its first day. Within a week it had reached 50 million. Now its number is 60.4 million.
Ronaldo has 170.5 million followers on Facebook. ‘X’ has 113 million followers. In addition, he has about 10 million followers on Chinese platforms Weibo and Kuyaisho.
He has the largest fanbase on Instagram. He has 639 million followers there. Which is 8 percent of the total population of the world. His contemporary footballer Lionel Messi has 500 million followers on Instagram. Behind them are Selena Gomez (424 million) and Kylian Mbappe (397 million).
Not only that, the Portuguese superstar who plays for Saudi Pro League club Al-Nasr is also the most expensive player in the world. Ronaldo topped the list of the world’s highest-paid athletes in 2023 published by Forbes magazine. His annual income was 275 million dollars. He has earned nearly 2 billion dollars in his career so far.
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