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Cristiano Ronaldo was the first person to reach 500 million Instagram followers — half a billion people waiting for ab updates.

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Guinness World Records lists Ronaldo as the first person to reach 500,000,000 Instagram followers, on 21 Nov 2022. (Guinness World Records)

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