Entrepreneur Elon Musk, head of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter, has become the most followed person on Twitter, effectively surpassing the number of followers of former US president Barack Obama.

According to Notícias ao Minuto, at the time of publication of this piece, Elon Musk had 133,072,262 followers on his page, while Obama trailed behind with 133,043,246 followers.

It's worth remembering that, as well as acquiring Twitter at the end of last year, Elon Musk has also been sharing much of the news from his respective companies on his personal page on the social network for some time now.

It should also be noted that Musk shares posts on Twitter much more frequently than Obama, with the Twitter CEO also taking the opportunity to share memes and interact with followers more often.