Katy Perry was born in 1984 in California to a religious family and began pursuing her musical talents from a young age. She moved to Los Angeles at 17 and signed with Columbia Records in 2004. Her breakout hit was "I Kissed a Girl" in 2008. She now has millions of social media followers and uses Facebook and Twitter regularly to connect with fans, posting updates and interacting with comments and posts. She is considered the most popular person on social media according to 2013 statistics showing millions of Facebook likes and Twitter followers.

2. Katy Perry was born Katheryn
Elizabeth Hudson on October
25th, 1984 in California, USA
She is a middle child and comes from a very
religious family. As a passionate music lover,
she began pursuing her talents by the young
age of 15 in Nashville

3. She moved to Los Angeles when she was only
17, but was not able to obtain a lasting record
deal until 2004 when she signed with
Columbia Records
Her first single was the
controversial “I Kissed a
Girl” which was released in
Spring of 2008
Other singles continued
to follow from her “One
of the Boys” album
which became her first
commercial success

4. She is now a famous popular music superstar
with an enormous fan base and several
success albums such as…
Katy Hudson (2001)
Teenage Dream (2010)
One of the Boys (2008)
Prism (2013)

5. Katy has a very large online
and social media following
She also has personal
accounts on some of these
sites that she regularly posts
On Facebook, she has
her own page,
https://www.facebook.com/katyperry
as well as several fan
based pages
https://www.facebook.com/Katyperry
OfficialFanClub

6. Most of her Facebook page contains
information about her tours, new albums,
new singles, and new music videos
She still however posts
occasional personal
photographs and
status posts that her
fans can comment on
and share on their
own pages
Photo derived from her FaceBook page

7. On Twitter however, she posts her own tweets
on a regular basis.
https://twitter.com/katyperry
She interacts with her fans
through twitter by
mentioning their posts and
commenting on them
She also retweets her fans
photos and status’s, as
well as favorites them

11. On November 4th 2013,
Katy Perry was declared
the most popular person
on social media at the
time, which was
determined from both
Facebook “likes”
and Twitter
“followers”. At the
time she has 46.55
million followers on
Twitter and 57.28
million likes on
Facebook.

12. Facebook and Twitter are the only online
social media sites that Katy uses, other than
Instagram which is a smart phone app that
can now also be accessed online.
She does also have a
YouTube and Vevo
account, but videos posted
on these sites are her music
videos, as opposed to
personal videos.

13. She has multiple fan sites online however, on
Facebook, Twitter, and private domains. These
sites are created and maintained by her fans
themselves, and continue to grow in numbers
on a daily basis.

14. https://twitter.com/KatyPerryDaily
http://katyfan.com
http://www.katy-perry.org
http://katy-perry.net
https://www.facebook.com/
KatyPerryFanClub
http://katy-perry.com
http://katyperrynow.com

15. Through the social media
sites that Katy uses, she
communicates effectively
and regularly with her fans
for such a famous pop star.
She makes time out of her
most definite busy schedule
to let her fans know that she
is seeing and reading
their tweets and
Facebook posts towards
her.

16. Her posts are short and concise,
simply quick updates about
what she is currently doing, or
just about anything that is on her
mind.
She intertwines all her social
media platforms, by “sharing”
content between each of the
sites. By doing this, she allows
her fans that may only be
following her on one platform,
to view all of the same posts
and photographs.

17. Katy Perry’s has most definitely found her fan
base. Most of them consist of teenage or
young adult females. They call themselves
“Katy Cats”.