New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the sole non-Bollywood celebrity who has made the cut to the top 10 slots of most-followed Indians on Twitter in 2015, otherwise led by legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan, the micro-blogging site said on Monday.
Bachchan, with 18.1 million followers till December 4, 2015, was followed the most, while Shah Rukh Khan was next with 16.5 million. Modi was ranked a close third with 16.4 million, while the 10th position was held by A.R. Rahman — 9.5 million.
The other actors in the list include Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Deepika Padukone, Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra and Akshay Kumar, in that order.
Twitter also pointed out some interesting new accounts that were opened in 2015: The Taj Mahal, former cricketer Kapil Dev, Tamil actor Suriya, and even the Delhi Police Commissioner and Safe City India.
The social media facilitator said while each tweet was unique, only one could be termed as 2015’s “Golden Tweet” in terms of the same being re-posted many times — a selfie by Shah Rukh Khan with British boyband One Direction’s former member, Zayn Malik, at the Asian Awards in London in April. It took Twitter by storm with over 141,000 retweets and being viewed nearly 18.3 million times globally as fans were thrilled to see the two together in this rare selfie.
Popular Twitter hashtag trends in India saw a mix of sports, entertainment, political and social activism movements. Led by IPL, it was followed by SelfieWithDaughter, BiharResults, SaalEkShuruaatAnek (Modi’s e-governance and digital diplomacy initiative) and DDLJ20Years.
