Rajinikanth beats Big B and Aamir, breaks their first-day Twitter records

Rajinikanth took Twitter by storm yesterday as he debuted in the digital media space for the first time. While his Twitter debut is his first outing in the digital world, he certainly outdid every other celebrity by amassing as many as 2,15,000 followers on the very first day. With such a smashing debut, Rajinikanth broke the first-day record of all popular Bollywood stars on the micro-blogging site.

Not only that, reportedly, Rajinikanth’s twitter debut reached the top ten first-day Twitter record internationally as well. Although he couldn’t break the record of Robert Downey Jr and The Pope, his debut has been ranked sixth most popular Twitter debut of all times in the world.

In India, till date the most popular Twitter debutant title was held by Aamir Khan who managed to gather as many as 46,000 followers on his first day on the micro-blogging site. He was closely followed by Amitabh Bachchan who acquired 37, 500 followers on his first day. However, all that changed with Rajinikanth’s entry into the digital space.

Before he even tweeted his first 140 characters on Twitter he had over 10,000 followers. His first tweet was a simple thank you to his fans. However, it got over six thousand retweets by the end of the day:

The star had earlier confessed that he has no knowledge of technology, so it came as a pleasant surprise for the actor’s fans who populate almost every social media site.

A cultural icon, the usually reticent superstar said he was looking forward to interacting with his fans on Twitter.

“I have always believed that my career graph is a miracle I owe my fans,” Rajinikanth said in a statement after joining Twitter.

“I have been contemplating joining the social media platform for a while to connect with them, hear what they have to say and share my thoughts… I decided to start with Twitter because I felt that the platform is abuzz with all the news and the trends that happen across the globe and I’m told that this is where all the best Rajini one liners are!” he added.