It’s the ultimate in “news that you don’t give a toss about but need to know in case it comes up at next weeks pub quiz“. If it does, you’ll thank me.

Lady Gaga is now positioned to be the next big challenger to President Obama. It’s not exactly a race either necessarily chose to enter, but the Facebook pages of the president and the sequined pop phenomenon are deadlocked in a competition to become the first living person to hit the record-busting 10-million fan mark on Facebook.


Obama’s page was beating Lady Gaga’s in the unofficial contest Friday morning, but by noon, Lady Gaga’s 9,126,024 fans had surpassed the president’s 9,104,015. Meredith Chin, a corporate communications manager for the social networking site, tells Fox News that either of them could reach 10-million fans by later today, or this weekend.


Facebook says the next runner up in the race to become the first living person to have over 10 million fans is actor Vin Diesel (at 9,047,448), with actress Megan Fox (at 7,666,005) at a distant fourth. Late singer Michael Jackson holds the all time record for the most fans at over 13 million.

TheEye has dipped a toe into this Facebook thingy but is (as usual) getting rapidly bored with the whole thing. Gave up on the blog Twitter about two years ago as well, but steadily and even in the last few days random people keep starting to follow it for no understandable reason. People are odd.