Twitter is the most popular microblogging platform for many reasons. And for its users, the "currency" that showcases one's popularity, is the number of followers.
While there are many influencers and famous people or companies that have millions of followers, not many keep track of how fast they reach their first million followers.
Even Twitter once said that it doesn't keep track of that metric.
But according to the Guinness World Records, the fastest to reach one million followers on Twitter, is Caitlyn Jenner, an American television personality, a trans woman, and a retired Olympic gold medal-winning decathlete.
She broke this record on June 1, 2015.
Another Jenner world record, and at 65? Who'da thought! Humbled & honored to have reached 1M followers in 4 hrs. Thank you for your support.
— Caitlyn Jenner (@Caitlyn_Jenner) June 1, 2015
Caitlyn Jenner, previously known as Bruce Jenner, only took four hours and three minutes to reach one million followers, becoming the fastest ever to reach than number.
Jenner’s verified account announced itself with a tweeted picture of the star’s Vanity Fair cover.
The magazine features the full debut of her new name Caitlyn, following Jenner’s male-to-female transition.
She broke the record, surpassing Barack Obama who took 4 hours and 52 minutes to hit the million mark, when he first set up a second Twitter account at @POTUS, matching first lady Michelle Obama's @FLOTUS account.
Jenner was also way faster than actor Robert Downey Jr., who hit a million followers milestone in around 24 hours.
Jenner was also faster than actor Charlie Sheen, who took around 25 hours to hit his own share of one million followers on Twitter.
It should be noted that four days after breaking the Guinness World Records, Jenner's Twitter account had amassed 2.37 million followers, with another 1.5 million followers on Instagram.
— Caitlyn Jenner (@Caitlyn_Jenner) June 1, 2015
Later, at the end of 2015, it was revealed by Time that Jenner's tweet that made her gender transition public was the tenth most re-tweeted tweet of 2015, based on re-tweets of tweets by verified users from January 1 to November 10 of that year.[
Due to Jenner's speedy popularity, a number of copycat accounts for Caitlyn Jenner have already been set up.
According to Guinness World Records full story about Jenner, the trans woman is no stranger to the world of record breaking.
Before breaking the record for the fastest to reach 1 million Twitter followers, she had set the world record for most points in a decathlon (male) on three occasions during the mid-1970s, the third a time at the Montreal Olympics in 1976 with a final score of 8,618.
She held the world record for four years until she was by UK's Daley Thompson in Götzis, Austria.
