Since its launch in the year 2006, globally renowned micro-blogging and social media platform Twitter has been effectively used by film celebrities worldwide and Bollywood is no exception. They use this extremely popular medium to interact with their fans and sharing their thoughts besides promoting their forthcoming projects.
For this article, we have collated data pertaining to the top 20 Bollywood celebrities and the number of Twitter followers they have gained over a period of time. The list includes Bollywood actors, actresses, and directors. We have included only those celebrity names who are presently alive and active. So, here we go.
| Sr.No. | Celebrity Name | Number of Followers | Active Since Year | Following |
| 20 | Varun Dhawan | 1.19 crores | September 2011 | 97 |
| 19 | Farhan Akhtar | 1.25 crores | December 2009 | 380 |
| 18 | Sonam Kapoor | 1.31 crores | June 2009 | 1018 |
| 17 | Ranveer Singh | 1.39 crores | August 2009 | 759 |
| 16 | Shraddha Kapoor | 1.39 crores | June 2011 | 275 |
| 15 | Ajay Devgn | 1.45 crores | August 2009 | 58 |
| 14 | Shahid Kapoor | 1.52 crores | July 2009 | 94 |
| 13 | Jacqueline Fernandez | 1.52 crores | October 2009 | 202 |
| 12 | Abhishek Bachchan | 1.54 crores | November 2009 | 406 |
| 11 | Karan Johar | 1.72 crores | July 2009 | 23 |
| 10 | Kapil Sharma | 1.82 crores | June 2013 | 667 |
| 9 | Alia Bhatt | 2.09 crores | August 2010 | 223 |
| 8 | Anushka Sharma | 2.25 crores | July 2009 | 122 |
| 7 | Priyanka Chopra | 2.73 crores | January 2009 | 539 |
| 6 | Deepika Padukone | 2.76 crores | January 2010 | 67 |
| 5 | Hrithik Roshan | 3.07 crores | February 2010 | 88 |
| 4 | Shah Rukh Khan | 4.19 crores | January 2010 | 77 |
| 3 | Akshay Kumar | 4.21 crores | April 2009 | 27 |
| 2 | Salman Khan | 4.27 crores | April 2010 | 25 |
| 1 | Amitabh Bachchan | 4.61 crores | May 2010 | 1798 |
Legendary Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan has topped this list. As you can observe from the above data, Priyanka Chopra and Akshay Kumar were amongst the earliest Bollywood celebrities to join Twitter. While Kapil Sharma was the latest entrant amongst these top 20 celebrities. We have included the star anchor-comedian because he has acted in a few Bollywood films too. Some popular celebrities who didn’t make it to the list by a small margin were Madhuri Dixit, Sidharth Malhotra, and Riteish Deshmukh, amongst others.
These were the top 20 Bollywood celebrities as per their Twitter followers. In case we have inadvertently missed out any name that should have been included on the above list, then please feel free to mention it in the comments box below.
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