Does the Sun really speak to more people than Russell Brand?

http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/dec/05/the-sun-speak-more-people-russell-brand

the article looks at how the social media has been used between the sun and Russel brand, it was about who got more publicity more followers and more views through the likes of social networking and Youtube. the article also shows a tweet by the son about Russel brand being "Gobby" and people using twitter and the #thesunlogic about things that Russel rand has experienced. based on the stats the sun only had 655,000 followers where as Russel brand had 8.6 million.