Famous Indian personalities and organisations who joined Twitter in 2014

Zee Media Bureau

New Delhi: Twitter, the 140-character social networking site, has drawn the attention of thousands over the years while becoming one of the best ways to communicate, express or keep in touch with those on the site.

Celebrities and personalities alike have used it to reach out to their followers and fans through this means. In short, it has become one of the best ways to reach out to the people.

Not to be left behind, a host of personalities and organisations have joined the Twitter world over the last one year. Superstar Rajinikanth, the President of India, Uday Kotak and ISRO's Mars Orbitor are few of the names.

Notably, Rajinikanth joined Twitter on May 4th (or Twitter joined Rajinikanth, as the joke goes) and within 24 hours over 200,000 of his fans flocked to follow him on Twitter. That number more than doubled within a week, and in less than six months, he had breached the 1 million mark.

Given below is list of personalities and organisations that joined Twitter in 2014 with the number of their followers as of December 9, 2014.

- Rajinikanth (Entertainment) @ SuperStarRajini with 1,128,418 followers

- Arjun Kapoor (Entertainment) @arjunk26 with 5,37,539 followers

- President of India (Politics) @RashtrapatiBhvn with 3,06,473 followers

- ISRO's Mars Orbiter (Science/Astronomy) @MarsOrbiter with 2,13,717 followers

- Ministry of Railways (Government) @RailMinIndia with 1,44,159 followers

- VVS Laxman (Cricket) @VVSLaxman281 with 1,22,348 followers

- Kajol (Entertainment) @KajolAtUN with 66,166 followers

- Twinkle Khanna (Entertainment) @@mrsfunnybones with 60,143 followers

- Anil Kumble (Cricket) @anilkumble1074 with 56,806 followers

- Kirron Kher (Entertainment/Politics) @KirronKherBJP with 54,033 followers

- Kailash Satyarthi (Government) @k_satyarthi with 50,969 followers

- Alok Nath (Entertainment) @aloknath with 36,385 followers

- Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (Government) @MoHFW_INDIA with 32,002 followers

- Ministry of Textiles (Government) @TexMinIndia with 11,176 followers

- Ministry of Finance (Government) @FinMinIndia with 9,953 followers

- Uday Kotak (Business) @udaykotak with 6,669 followers

- Armaan Jain (Entertainment) @TheArmaanJain with 5,355 followers

- Amit Trivedi (Entertainment) @ItsAmitTrivedi with 4,876 followers

- Prakash Jha (Entertainment/Politics) @prakashjha27 with 1,870 followers

First Published: Friday, December 12, 2014, 00:13