Outperforming all other actors in the film industry, megastar Amitabh Bachchan has been 
ranked number one on Twitter, in terms of both the popularity and activity.
In an analytic report of the most popular Bollywood stars on the social networking site, Big B with over 12 million followers on Twitter topped the popularity list.
Digital services provider ‘To The New’ rated various Bollywood celebrities on the basis of their popularity and their engagement with fans on Twitter.
The rank is based on an algorithm which combines the scores received for each measure i.e. total number of followers, absolute increase in followers and tweets per day.
72-year-old Bachchan is followed by superstar Shah Rukh Khan (10.4 million followers) at number two.
Aamir Khan (10.1 million), Salman Khan (9.5 million), Hrithik Roshan (7.7 million) and Abhishek Bachchan (5.4 million) have also made it to the list of top 10 most popular Bollywood actors.
Actresses in the list include Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone, Sonam Kapoor and Sonakshi Sinha.
With an average of 20 tweets, re-tweets and replies per day, Bachchan also came out as the most active one among all.
He also re-tweets pictures of his iconic characters and memorable roles that his fans share with him.
He uses a unique style of tweeting, which includes prefixing a number code to the tweet – for example ‘T-1375′.
For Big B, 88 per cent of his tweets are interactions with fans.