Pop princess Britney Spears has beat off competition from all fellow celebrities to become the first person to have 5 million followers on the social networking website Twitter.
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 Twitter page.
The 28-year-old singer has an account on Twitter since 2008.
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Temptations’ Woodson dies at 58
Detroit: Ali-Ollie Woodson, who led the legendary Motown quintet the Temptations in the 1980s and ‘90s and helped restore them to their hit-making glory with songs including Treat Her Like a Lady, has died, a friend said. He was 58.
Ali-Ollie Woodson died on Monday in southern California after battling cancer, Motown Alumni Association president Billy Wilson said.
Wilson said Woodson’s wife, Juanita, told him about the death on Monday.
Woodson was not an original member of the group, which had several lineup changes since it started in the 1960s.
But he played an integral part in keeping the Temptations from becoming just a nostalgia act.
By the early 1980s, the Temptations were no longer posting hit after hit like they did in the 1960s and ‘70s with classics such as Papa Was a Rolling Stone, My Girl, and I Wish It Would Rain. —AP