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Bassem Youssef comes after Morsy in Twitter’s million followers club

Popular Current Chief Hamdeen Sabbahi and Egypt Freedom Party Chief Amr Hamzawy have reached more than one million followers on Twitter.

President Mohamed Morsy's twitter feed reached the one million mark one year after he signed up to the site when he was Freedom and Justice Party chief.

Satirist TV host Bassem Youssef, with 1,240,000 followers, comes after Morsy, who has1,260,000 followers.

After Youssef was ordered be arrested by Public Prosecution, Youssef tweeted saying that the best response to such crackdown on freedoms is to unfollow Morsy, so he can exceed his number of followers.

Constitution Party Chief Mohamed ElBaradei comes in first place with 1,420,000 followers, then comes Morsy, then Youssef. Egypt Party Chief Amr Hamzawy with 1,330,000 followers comes in the fourth place, then Al-Masry Al-Youm, followed by more than 1,220,000 Twitter users.

Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm

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