Ronan tweeting: Singer in the zone for followers

LADY Gaga may have been crowned Twitter queen, or ‘Tween’ as the outlandish one is calling herself, but in Ireland, Ronan Keating reigns supreme.

The Boyzone frontman – whom Gaga would probably wear as a hat if she got her hands on him – is the top homegrown celebrity with Twitter followers, some 74,226 of whom hang on his every tweet.

Yesterday that meant they were reading he was “gutted” that Aussie actor Matt Newton had pulled out of hosting Australian X Factor on which Keating is a judge. Twitter fans will have had to look elsewhere to discover that Newton was dumped amid allegations of violent assaults on his ex-girlfriend. Such are the limitations of the 140-character tweet.