Cristiano Ronaldo has more social media followers than USA has people; India ahead

Five-time Ballon d'Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo now has more social media followers than current population in United States of America. Last week, Juventus forward became first sports icon to amass over 500 million followers on social media. Ronaldo has over 125 million likes on his official page on Facebook, over 263 million followers on Instagram and 91 million followers on Twitter. He also has around 1.72 million subscribers on Youtube despite not using his account on social media platform for last four years. 

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Over years, Cristiano Ronaldo has gained a massive fan-following on social media for his exceptional footballing skills. Off field, Ronaldo is a fashion icon for many, which also seems to get him plenty of attention on social media. In fact, on Friday, Cristiano Ronaldo reached an incredible milestone by becoming first person to amass over half-a-billion followers on social media.

five-time UCL winner now has more followers than current population in USA. According to Staista.com, re are currently 331.42 million inhabitants in North American country. In fact, Ronaldo's staggering fan-following figures are only behind population of China and India — two most populated countries in world. USA n comes in at third. 

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While some NFL fans claimed that six-time Super Bowl champion, Tom Bry, was most-known athlete in world, Bucs QB's online fan-following comes nowhere close to Ronaldo. 43-year-old Bry has 1.7 million followers on Twitter and has amassed over 9.4m followers on Instagram. 

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Meanwhile, Ronaldo has racked up over 125 million likes on his official page on Facebook, over 263 million followers on Instagram and 91 million more followers on Twitter. In fact, Ronaldo has gained over 2 million followers on Instagram in past four days. Reports also claim that social media giants Instagram have around 1 billion users which means that around 15% of platform's users are following Ronaldo.

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While Ronaldo continues to dominate world of social media in terms of fan-following, Juventus will be depending on him to guide m to ir first European Cup in 25 years. Bianconeri face FC Porto at  Estio do Dragao on Tuesday in first leg of ir Champions League Round of 16 game. 

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