Brazilian soccer star Kaka is on the verge of becoming the world's first athlete to amass 10 million followers on Twitter.
The midfielder, who plays for Spain's Real Madrid club team, was about 30,000 followers short of the milestone as of late Monday afternoon. If Kaka maintains his recent pace, his @KAKA account should hit eight figures within the next day or so. He added more than 35,000 followers in a single day twice during the past week, according to the stats site TwitterCounter.com.
While Kaka rules the Twittersphere of sports, he's just 17th on the overall list of most-followed tweeters. Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber — the network's first and second-most popular users — count more than 20 million followers apiece.
Kaka's Real Madrid teammate Cristiano Ronaldo is the second most-followed athlete on Twitter. He's 21st overall, and has just under nine million followers. Retired NBA player Shaquille O'Neal is the only other sports figure among the network's 60 most popular users. O'Neal has 5.5 million followers, good for 55th overall.
Kaka tweets in English, Spanish and Portuguese. He appears to manage his own account, posting short messages a couple of times per day. He also tweets photos of himself and teammates, his playing gear and venues of upcoming games. He personally responded to several followers who tweeted him good wishes for his birthday on Sunday.
Which sports figures do you follow on Twitter? Let us know in the comments.
BONUS GALLERY: Twitter's Funniest Sports Parody Accounts
NBA legend and hardcore Grateful Dead fan, Bill Walton is known for his sometimes curious verbiage and his philosophical take on the game of basketball. This account takes full advantage.
This account serves as a bizarro version of the Worldwide Leader in Sports, and has some 175,000 followers as a testament to its humor.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is a pretty serious fellow, but what if he told us how he really feels?
Wait, that Adam Sandler movie was fiction, right?
The smart and oh-so-hip website Grantland provides loads of great sports writing, but can sometimes take itself a wee bit seriously. This account pokes fun with fake stories and headlines.
Joel Quenneville, coach of the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks, sports a formidable bristly 'stache. Follow its trials and tribulations here.
This account pays homage to quarterback Peyton Manning's nugget, and provides commentary on happenings around the sports world.
New Jersey Nets owner and Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov could give that Dos Equis guy a run for his money as the Most Interesting Man in the World. So he's a natural for a fake Twitter account.
Legendary NFL coach and analyst John Madden -- straight, no chaser and with a twist of the ridiculous.
San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich is known to be a cool, but fairly reserved dude. He'd probably be great on Twitter, but for now, this fake account will have to do.
Former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz can be pretty tough to understand as a sportscaster, due to his excitable nature and less-than-stellar enunciation. This account hasn't tweeted in couple months, but will hopefully get going again when football season comes around.
Fair or not, Miami Heat forward Chris Bosh is frequently maligned for timid play and a lack of mental toughness. This account plays off his perceived "emo" nature.
Verbose New York Jets coach Rex Ryan is not (yet) on Twitter. Until he joins, this will have to do.
Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn was a baseball pitcher in the 1800s. What if his ghost had a Twitter account?
New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon is a high-profile figure, in part for being a victim of Bernard Madoff's financial scam. Keep up with him in (fake) real-time here.
NBA legend and hardcore Grateful Dead fan, Bill Walton is known for his sometimes curious verbiage and his philosophical take on the game of basketball. This account takes full advantage.
This account serves as a bizarro version of the Worldwide Leader in Sports, and has some 175,000 followers as a testament to its humor.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is a pretty serious fellow, but what if he told us how he really feels?
Wait, that Adam Sandler movie was fiction, right?
The smart and oh-so-hip website Grantland provides loads of great sports writing, but can sometimes take itself a wee bit seriously. This account pokes fun with fake stories and headlines.
Joel Quenneville, coach of the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks, sports a formidable bristly 'stache. Follow its trials and tribulations here.
This account pays homage to quarterback Peyton Manning's nugget, and provides commentary on happenings around the sports world.
New Jersey Nets owner and Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov could give that Dos Equis guy a run for his money as the Most Interesting Man in the World. So he's a natural for a fake Twitter account.
Legendary NFL coach and analyst John Madden -- straight, no chaser and with a twist of the ridiculous.
San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich is known to be a cool, but fairly reserved dude. He'd probably be great on Twitter, but for now, this fake account will have to do.
Former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz can be pretty tough to understand as a sportscaster, due to his excitable nature and less-than-stellar enunciation. This account hasn't tweeted in couple months, but will hopefully get going again when football season comes around.
Fair or not, Miami Heat forward Chris Bosh is frequently maligned for timid play and a lack of mental toughness. This account plays off his perceived "emo" nature.
Verbose New York Jets coach Rex Ryan is not (yet) on Twitter. Until he joins, this will have to do.
Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn was a baseball pitcher in the 1800s. What if his ghost had a Twitter account?
New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon is a high-profile figure, in part for being a victim of Bernard Madoff's financial scam. Keep up with him in (fake) real-time here.
Thumbnail image via @KAKA.
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