Justin Bieber Will Break Your Internet

This morning
Justin Bieber was present in two of Twitter's top ten global trending topics, a feat usually reserved for big events like award shows and major sports outings. Seeing as this is just any old Tuesday in February, what gives?
We asked our Facebook friends about the teen pop phenomenon this morning and the resounding answer was, "WHO?" Still, like him or not, Bieber is a true Internet star, who was plucked from in front of his webcam in Canada and thrown into the real music world, working with heavyweights like Usher and releasing his debut album on Island Def Jam Records. Now he is even taking over Lionel Richie's singing duties in the 'We Are The World' remake. But what makes this 15-year-old stand out from the rest of the aspiring singers out there? Perhaps it's his legion of die-hard young fans.
PopEater breaks down his rise to fame ... after the jump.
Bieber's fame is not just buzz, either. Last November, Bieber's debut album 'My World' debuted at #6 on the U.S. Billboard 200 selling 137,000 copies in its first week. At the time, the album was the strongest debut from a new artist before Susan Boyle pounced on the scene and subsequently decimated all competition the following month. Even more impressive, Bieber became the first solo artist in Billboard's history to have at least 4 singles enter the Top 40--
before the album even dropped.
These days you can regularly find Bieber presenting at the Grammy Awards or hobnobbing with superstars like Rihanna and Beyonce (both of whom he's expressed having crushes on), but the true key to his success is never forgetting about the fans that thrust him into the spotlight in the first place (as evidenced by the
riots he caused at a local mall last fall).
YouTube
On Bieber's original stomping grounds, the pop star is certainly a force to be reckoned with. His YouTube page has 136 million video views and nearly half a million active subscribers. If he sings it, they will watch and listen.
Facebook and MySpace
Currently, Bieber has 1,743,255 fans on Facebook and 484,193 friends over at MySpace (at time of publishing.) The latter is maybe not all that impressive in a relative sense (by comparison, larger artist Beyonce has
1,611,244), but as newer social networking sites continue to grow where MySpace once dominated that's not too shabby at all. Here it is quality over quantity.
And as for Facebook? A simple post by Bieber with just a link to his YouTube channel and a sweet Valentines Day message received over 15,000 likes and 4,500 comments. He's definitely a social media juggernaut.
Twitter
Over 1.1 million strong, Twitter is by far Bieber's greatest asset. As previously mentioned, this fervent network has the ability to start a riot, literally. Last fall, crowd control got out of hand at a mall in Long Island, NY and resulted in five people hospitalized with minor injuries and police arresting a vice president from Bieber's record label. The police's major grievance? Justin's
failure to tweet his fans to cooperate with authorities in their attempts at dispersing the crowd. That's pretty major in our books.
Obviously Bieber owes a lot to the fact that the majority of his fans are young (and excitable) enough to devote unlimited amounts of time following his every tweet and musical note. The more we see Bieber around, the more we know he's definitely the one to watch.
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man i already cry evry time i c his face !!!!!!god i luv him soo much an its scaring me cuz im seeing evryone like him an all i want is a chance to be with him i luv him sooo much an his songs make me cry cuz i know im ganna get hurt becuz its almost imposibele im ganna be able to show him wat a great person i am an i really wanna meet him but im getting really scared =[=[=[i wnt be able to notice him! man i think i would really b a great girlfren 4 him but u know so dose alot of people but i pray evry day to give me a chance an if not me (i really hope its me) then to give him the best girl there is whos mayb reading this right now so if not me ,,good luck to those who are=]
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hay i love you justen biber but im only 7 yaers old but thats all rhite but i want to know why you do not give your fhone number out i want it i love you
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anybody who hates JUSTIN BIEBER then shut up and back off he is cute he has a awsome voice and so do i . anybudy who agrees with me your a good person i love justin bieber i am ubsest with him but i would never go to wild over him but i love him and joey you are stuipid
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I LOVE YOU JUSTIN BIEBER!!!!!!!!!!!! IM LIKE YOUR BIGGEST FAN EVER!!!!!!!!!!! YOUR MY FAVORITE SINGER!!!! KEEP SINGING!!!!!!!
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i love justin bieber all my friends say hes ugly but i say he`s hotttttttttttttttt.
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hes hotttttttttt
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im 9 years old i have a crush on him hes hottttt
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I hert justin biber i wish i could go see him sing live everday and go to his school i love him
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