She's not the only celebrity to have gained millions of fans on Facebook over the past year. With Facebook's help, we've compiled a list of the top 10 most popular individual celebrities on the social networking site. Even in death, Michael Jackson continues to be Facebook's most popular celebrity.
With 15,, fans, the King of Pop is comfortably ahead of his closest contender, Lady Gaga, by more than 4 million fans. According to a Facebook spokeswoman, the King of Pop's fan base rose from , the day before Jackson's June 25, , death, to more than 10 million not even a week later.
Jackson's page includes previously unavailable music videos, and it updated fans on the latest news surrounding tribute events for the anniversary of Jackson's death. Lady Gaga may take some flack for her oddball fashion sense, but her Facebook fans seem drawn to her no matter what she wears. On her fan page, she posts about her music career, informing readers about her upcoming tour dates and progress in the studio, and also offers fans the occasional sartorial tidbit.
Only a few days after hitting 10 million fans, it looks like she's about to hit another benchmark. As of Monday morning, the star had 10,, fans or people who "Like" her on Facebook. With frequent status updates, pictures and video clips, the action star has drawn a stellar online following of about 10,, fans. A year ago, President Obama was the second most popular person on Facebook, behind only Michael Jackson.
This year, he's taken a bit of a dip in his standing. With about 9,, fans, Obama has fallen to number 4 on the list of most popular people on Facebook.
Run by Organizing for America, Obama's page includes updates on the president's activities and video clips. But even though no one is actively managing them, popular interests can still attract millions of fans.
These pages have more than 55 million likes. As of this writing, Facebook has removed 21 of the pages. In this case, they were able to steal pages that had been auto-generated by Facebook itself without the company realizing it.
A Facebook spokesperson initially told BuzzFeed News it had "identified a bug" and was investigating the issue, but declined to comment further. Hours later, the company said it had fixed the bug, removed the pages, and "demoted" the admins who had managed to steal the pages. This prevents them from creating new pages. Facebook would not say what the bug was or how it worked. It would only say the bug was not related to a feature that enables a user to claim an existing page, which BuzzFeed News previously said may have been how the pages were stolen.
What is clear is that Facebook somehow allowed these spammers to merge large interest pages with other pages they controlled, thereby taking ownership of millions of fans.
The new owners of these stolen interest pages then used them to reshare content to generate additional engagement, or to promote links to sites in order to drive traffic and earn ad revenue. There were pages for notable historical figures such as the Prophet Muhammad and Mozart; many pages for languages, including Spanish, Korean, Hindi, and even American English; and some for basic ideas or concepts, such as walking, fighting, and money.
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