Failing to be gold ball, Cristiano Ronaldo can boast of being the most followed on Twitter footballer.

Ronaldo today is the highest followed football player on Twitter

With more than 19 million followers, he is ahead with 16 million Kaka and Wayne Rooney with more than 6.5 million.This is Marca who unveiled the rankings.

The Spanish daily has focused mainly on the Spanish league and calculated including players making the most tweets daily. Thus, the Brazilian Lucas Piazon Chelsea on loan to Malaga last season, leads with 8.93 tweets per day, followed by Leo Baptistao from Atletico Madrid 6.22 tweets and Jordi Codina Getafe with 4.99 tweets. Note that the players registered for the longest time on Twitter in Spain are Arbeloa (24/04/09), Falcao (20/07/09) and Kaka (29/07/09).