Kaka tops 10 million followers on Twitter

Kaka tops 10 million followers on Twitter

Published Apr. 25, 2012 12:02 p.m. ET

Meet the king of the sporting Twittersphere: Brazilian football superstar Kaka.

The Real Madrid midfielder on Wednesday became the first athlete to amass 10 million followers on the social networking site.

''Thank youuuuu. To celebrate I'll make a twitcam'' wrote the 30-year-old Kaka, who at the last count had 10,012,862 Twitter fans.

He's nowhere close to Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber - who each have more than 20 million followers - but it's not a bad haul for a player whose career appears to be on the wane after making himself a global icon in a golden six-year spell at AC Milan in Italy.

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Kaka describes himself as a ''Christian, husband and father who loves football'' and tweets in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

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