PM Modi, Amitabh Bacchan Are the Highest Gainers:Twitter India


BENGALURU: Twitter, the most popular social networking site, revealed few interesting data related to trending conversation through the year 2014. As per the latest revelations, the most re-tweeted tweet in India was Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Victory tweet, "India has won!" Modi’s account was the fastest growing Indian account with 8.4 million followers and adding a growth of 54.45 percent. The tweet got 70,500 retweets and 45,600 favorites. On the other hand among Bollywood celebrities, Amitabh Bacchan was the most followed. His twitter account shows 11.8 million followers, reports Anupam Saxena,TOI Tech.

Oscars host Ellen De Generes’ star studded selfie was globally the most retweeted tweet of this year. Ellen’s selfie features Hollywood stars Bradley Cooper, Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Kevin Spacey, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. It was retweeted almost 3.36 million times.

The top three fast rising trends on twitter in the year 2014 were #WorldCup2014 (conversation around the Football World Cup 2014 held in Brazil), #MH370 (disappearance of the Malaysian Airlines aircraft on 8 March 2014) and #Muffler Man (a campaign led by the fans of Aam Admi Party) Arvind Kejriwal.

Another tweet that was in talk was the tweet when Rohit Sharma scored 264 runs against Sri Lanka. This tweet was followed by Superstar Rajnikanth joining twitter. Among Bollywood stars next to Amitabh Bacchan are Shahrukh Khan (10.2 million followers) and Aamir Khan with 9.8 million followers.

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