Lionel Messi
Lionel Messi has his admirers on the pitch and off it. He doesn’t seem to set a foot wrong just about anywhere he goes and wins admirers just about everywhere. That doesn’t really help his social media following though as this is the one place where he simply cannot beat Cristiano Ronaldo.
The multiple Ballon D’or winner would find serious gaps in his trophy cabinets if there were any for social media following. He would lose out to his Portuguese rival almost every single time.
With 84.5 million followers on Facebook, the Argentinean great loses tremendous ground on the followers’ race. The race on Instagram is however much closer with Lionel Messi enjoying 41.3 million followers on his Instagram account. The problem erupts the moment we move into the Twitter realm.
Lionel Messi does not have a Twitter account. Yes, you heard that right. He does not have a Twitter account. He was asked a couple of years back about an account and he agreed to open one by the end of that year but that didn’t seem to take off all that much.
The funny thing is even without the essential Twitter profile, Lionel Messi boasts 125.8 million followers on two accounts alone. Staggering numbers for anyone and definitely enough to bring him to second on this list.
