Katy Perry now has more followers on Twitter than Lady Gaga, making her the most-followed woman on the site and the second most-followed overall.

As of early Friday morning, Perry had 40,150,336 followers, ahead of Gaga, who had 39,389,617 followers on the social networking site.

Perry will still have a little ways to go to top the most-followed person on Twitter, Justin Bieber, who had 42,491,906 followers as of early Friday morning.

Lady Gaga used to hold the overall Twitter crown but Bieber surpassed her in January of this year.

Perry will be releasing her new album, "Prism", on October 22nd and Lady Gaga's "ARTPOP" album will be released in November.

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