Lady Gaga has dethroned Britney Spears as Twitter Queen with more than 5.7 million followers on the microblogging site and promised no online celebrity nonsense during her reign.

An “inaugural message” posted by the pop music diva at her official YouTube channel had been viewed 345,145 times by Monday afternoon.

“Thank you for beginning my reign as Twitter Queen,” Lady Gaga said in video that showed her sitting at a make-up table backstage with a lacy crown atop her head and a glowing wand in one hand. “I vow never to partake in online shenanigans and I vow to always tweet and tweet again.”

Lady Gaga, whose birth name is Stefani Germanotta, posted the video after getting word that she had replaced Ms Spears as the person with the greatest following at microblogging service Twitter.

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