Surpassed 30 million followers on Naill Horan's Twitter account.

Singer Niall Horan, a member of pop group One Direction, has become the first Irishman to top 30 million followers on Twitter, ahead of other compatriots like wrestler Conor McGregor or golfer Rory McIlroy. The young artist, 24, has reached this record in his "@NiallOfficial" account of the popular social network, well ahead of the 4.1 million followers McGregor and McIlroy, second and third, respectively, in she is ready. Further still, with 1.1 million, it is placed in ninth place the Dublin group "U2", which gives an idea of ​​the enormous popularity that has in the Horan cyberspace, especially among the adolescent public.

According to the Irish Independent newspaper, the singer's most "re-tweeted" tune reached 752,000 and published it shortly after submitting his application for the British television show "X Factor" in 2010, a contest in which Met the members of the popular youth band "One Direction". The group announced in 2016 that it was taking a break, a halt that Horan took advantage of last year to publish his first single "This Town", which followed this May the single "Slow Hands".