Friendly faces: The popularity contest between Hong Kong's Facebook celebs

Obama is in hot pursuit of Lady Gaga as the second living person to have more than 10 million Facebook fans, with the president’s fan count hitting 10,080,573 as of 3pm today. 

Lady Gaga made headlines over the Independence Day weekend for being the first living person to have more than 10 million fans on Facebook. As of now, the pop queen can boast of having 11,230,470 people ‘liking’ her.

If the two icons didn’t have more important things to do, like cleaning up the oil spill and raking in concert earnings, we’d call this an inflated playground popularity contest. That said, Lady Gaga posted a video thanking her admirers, or “Little Monsters,” for helping her make Facebook history on July 3.

In this side of the world, it’s Bambi-eyed songstress Gigi Leung who takes the crown when it comes to social networking popularity, with 914,709 fans on Sina Weibo, a Chinese Twitter of sorts, according to Apple Daily. Leung's Weibo page caused a stir on the Chinese mainland earlier this year when authorities tried to censor a post she wrote sympathizing with victims of the Chinese fake milk powder scandal. These days, she fills her page with considerably less incendiary self portraits.

Shawn Yue, chiseled star of runaway hit “Love in a Puff," has attracted 270,485 Facebook friends with his Lomo-style photos, making him the most popular Hong Kong celeb on Facebook, trumping established singer Sammi Cheng and small screen star Linda Chung. 

Celebs on Facebook:

1. Shawn Yue (270,485 fans)

2. Linda Chung (233,522 fans)

3. Sammi Cheng (173,049 fans)

Celebs on Weibo:

1. Gigi Leung (915,170 fans)

2. Miriam Yeung (873,618 fans)

3. Joey Yung (811,729 fans)