I'm sure these two are finding a way to celebrate this news!
Twins John and Edward Grimes have officially become the best of the Irish on the social networking site Twitter. The pair broke the news last night saying:
"200,000 followers: 100,000 followers for John and 100,000 followers for Edward! Go Team Jedward."
The pair who are headed to the semi-finals of the Eurovision next week have tweeted 11,400 times so far since joining the social networking site just 18 months ago.
Boyzone member Ronan Keating is the second most popular Irish star on Twitter, with 121,000 followers, despite only tweeting 615, but some of his followers include the Australian public as he features as a judge on their version of the X Factor.
Finally former Westlife star Brian McFadden nabbed the third spot on the list of the most followed Irish stars with 100,000 followers. Brian Tweeted fans yesterday showing his gratitude:
"100,000 followers. Woo hoo."
PS!!
Jedward were also named the highest earning X Factor stars over a 12 month period. Cashing in €3 million in just one year alone!
