DETAILS LISTED! VIRAT KOHLI AMONG MOST VALUABLE ATHLETES ON TWITTER; EARNS HUGE AMOUNT FOR EVERY TWEET
Home > News Shots > SportsDays after touching another landmark on Instagram, Team India skipper and captain Virat Kohli has a new reason to hit headlines again. He has achieved a new feat on the microblogging after being in the list of most valuable athletes on Twitter.
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According to an article from sports website Bleacher Report, Kohli is the fifth most valuable athlete on Twitter. He gets paid $350,101 per tweet (approximately about INR 2.5 crore). Meanwhile, football icon Cristiano Ronaldo leads the list with $868,604 for each tweet (approximately about INR 6 crore).
Others to join the list are, football players Andres Iniesta and Neymar Jr, who come 2nd and 3rd and earn $590,825 and $478,138 per tweet respectively. Talking about the four place- Basketball legend LeBron James gets paid $470,356 for each tweet, Bleacher Report further added.
Highlighting about the 31-year-old, who has now become a global icon is also an idol figure to the youth and budding cricketers.
Kohli had also become the first person from India to have 50 million followers on the micro-picture blogging website – Instagram. Currently, he is busy playing the Test series against New Zealand at their home ground.
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