Big B is Twitter king too

Amitabh-BachchanAmitabh Bachchan’s fans are truly elated with the recent report regarding Twitter. The analysis done on Bollywood stars revealed Big B as the number one celeb on Twitter, in terms of both his activity and popularity as well.

Amitabh has a whopping 12 million followers; no doubt he topped the popularity list when digital service provider ‘To The New’ rated Bollywood personalities! The ranking system is based on a method that relies on three parameters- the number of tweets per day, the number of followers and also the absolute increase in followers. On an average, Bachchan has 20 tweets, replies and re-tweets daily. But fans were a bit disappointed since he did not make it to the top 100 on the global ranking; he currently stands on number 115.

Another aspect of the report focused on examining the top 100 tweets of top 10 celebs throughout November.

The results revealed that most of the tweets were regarding conversation with fans, promotion of films as well as brands. As for Amitabh Bachchan, 88 % of his tweets deal with interaction with his fans. Moreover, he loves to re-tweet on images depicting some of his best roles form his movies. He was grateful to fans when he crossed 7 million on November 5th “Thank you AALLLLLLL..Its 7 MILLION plus !!”

SRK stands second in India with 10.4 million followers and holds rank number 150 on the global rankings.

About 16 % of Shahrukh’s tweets are concerned with the promotion of his newly released and upcoming movies. While 61 % of his tweets account for his communication with fans. He is followed by Aamir Khan at 10.1 million. 54 % of his tweets deal with the promotion of brands, but Mr. Perfectionist has not been very active this year. His tweets were mainly focused on the promotion of his upcoming films and his show ‘Satyamev Jayate’.

Among the actresses, Priyanka Chopra tops the list with 8 million followers. Abhiskek Bachchan has 5.4 million fans following him and he stands second in terms of the average number of tweets- being10 per day.

The market director for twitter India, Rishi Jaitly said, “This year was a breakthrough year for Indians using Twitter to connect to their world and heroes such as Amitabh Bachchan and Sachin Tendulkar with 12 million and nearly 5 million followers. We are proud to feature them on the year of Twitter site.

” Moreover, the top five most influential tweets by Bollywood personalities will be featured in the ‘Perspective’ section of 2014.twitter.com