By Maria Bastero
Content Manager at Marketing4eCommerce
ANDSport moves passions and is a source of health, self-improvement and positivism. Therefore, it is not surprising that the main references in this field move masses, but who are the most followed athletes on social networks ?
Of the 20, 17 are footballers , two are basketball players and one is a cricketer. All men . As for nationalities , they vary greatly: Argentina, Portugal, Sweden, France, Egypt, Wales, Spain, the United States, Colombia, Brazil, India and Uruguay. Many use them only to show their daily lives, although the most famous also take advantage of this medium to advertise brands , managing to raise millions of dollars . In total, the top athletes have more than 4.171 million followers on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram .
Without further ado, we present to you the 10 most popular athletes on social media (data as of 29/04/2024). If you want to know the rest of the list, you'll have to read to the end of our article.
Cristiano Ronaldo
Lionel Messi
Virat Kohli
Neymar
LeBron James
Ronaldinho
David Beckham
Kylian Mbappé
Karim Benzema
Sergio Ramos
1. Cristiano Ronaldo
You may not like football, but the reality is that this belarus number data footballer does not go unnoticed by anyone, and certainly not in the world of social media. We are talking about Cristiano Ronaldo, who with 908,100,000 followers, 15.34% more than in 2023, is the athlete who leads social networks worldwide . He has an intense online life through his Instagram accounts (more than 628 million followers), Facebook (more than 169 million fans) and Twitter (more than 111 million followers), and he even has an online underwear store.