Bollywood boys on Twitter

Bangalore: Its high time you let go off the gossip papers and tune to Twitter to hear it personally from the stars. The Bollywood stars sprinkled a little magic on twitter in India, lighted its torch and handed it over to their fans who were more than happy to take it forward. The potential growth predicted for the micro-blogging site among the Bollywood fan base is exceptionally huge as the film industry caters to an audience close to 2 billion people and the percentage of people connecting with the starts is very small today. As the celebrities know it very well that twitter works in their favor to effectively advertise themselves and their films, tweeting become a daily routine for the stars. 1. Shah Rukh Khan Among the King Khans of Bollybood, Shah Rukh Khan was the first to join Twitter and started tweeting online since January 2, 2010. His twitter ID is 'iamsrk' and he follows 49 people on twitter including Amitabh Bachchan, Sachin Tendulkar, Leonardo DiCaprio and Shakira. He has huge number of followers on twitter which is at 882,247 now and is ever increasing with 2,150 tweets. SRK has the highest number of followers and most number of tweets comparing to other male stars in Hindi cinema. He is not a daily tweeter and usually abstains from controversies on the social media.