Shah Rukh Khan has some catching up to do.
By Dileep Thekkethil
BANGALORE: Twitter accounts of Bollywood celebrities and emerging artists have always been of keen interest to their fans, especially to keep abreast of latest happenings, and photographs.
This time around it is not a budding star or a hot actress who has caught the attention of the twitter world, but the septuagenarian BigB of Bollywood Amithabh Bachchan.
In a surprising tweet that appeared in Amithabh Bachchan’s twitter profile, the first “Don” of Bollywood cinema declared that he crossed 10 million followers in Twitter.
The twitter post of Mr. Bachchan read:
“T 1598 – 10 MILLION !! ON TWITTER !! YEEAAAHH !! Thank you all that follow me .. ! Next target 20 !!”
With a total of 10 million followers at present, the Big B of Bollywood leads in the top position among any other Bollywood stars on Twitter. Bachchan is a frequent user of Twitter and he posts tweets on various topics ranging from film to socio-political issues.
The other Bollywood stars who have great number of twitter followers includes Sharukh Khan with 8.75 million followed by Aamir Khan with 8.14 million, Salman Khan with 8 million and Priyanka Chopra with 6.8 million.
The micro-blogging site twitter has a large number of followers in India. It was one of the key social media tools used by politicians during the elections 2014 including the Prime Minister Nerandra Modi. Many believe that Modi’s interaction with youngsters using twitter gave him an edge over his political rivals.
Bachchan is not only active in twitter but also has huge fan following in Facebook, with more than 15 million in number.