Just One Direction for Horan’s 9m Twitter fans

One Direction star Niall Horan has entered into an elite superstar club after hitting 9m followers on Twitter.

The Mullingar teenager is now one of the top 50 most followed people on the planet just behind American rapper Kanye West (43) and British soft rockers Coldplay (41).

At No 44 in the Twitter stakes, the Irish boyband member is trailed by Hollywood badboy Charlie Sheen at No 46 with 8.7m followers and US diva Mariah Carey at 8.6m.