Prime Minister Narendra Modi's followers on Twitter have increased four-fold to 16.4 million since he took oath last year, but he has yet to catch up with Bollywood icons Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan.
According to a list of the most followed Twitter personalities from India in 2015, released by the social media forum today, Amitabh Bachchan's @SrBachchan account remains the most followed with 18.1 million followers.
Check out the others in their top 10 list.
Shah Rukh Khan is the next on the list with 16.5 million followers, according to the 'Year On Twitter 2015' report.
SRK also created a record as one of his tweets became the most retweeted one in India during the year.
His selfie with British boyband One Direction's former member Zayn Malik at the Asian Awards in London took Twitter by storm with over 1,41,000 retweets and nearly 18.3 million views globally.
This year Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) takes the third spot; his numbers quadrupled from 4 million when he took office last May to over 16 million now, making him the biggest gainer on the top 10 list in 2015.
Modi's 'Selfie With Daughter' campaign on Twitter, to promote rights of the girl child, was one of the most popular hashtags on the microblogging site. The report said there were over 3,75,000 #SelfieWithDaughter tweets.
On his first year anniversary in office, there were over 1,79,000 "#SaalEkShuruaatAnek" tweets.
Modi is the only non-Bollywood personality who has managed to find a place in the top 10 list.
Aamir Khan has 15.5 million followers and is fourth on the list.
Salman Khan, who is half a million short, himself in the fifth spot.
At number six in the list is actress Deepika Padukone.
Hrithik Roshan ranks seventh.
Priyanka Chopra is at No 8.
With 10.6 million followers, Akshay Kumar is at number nine.
Musician A R Rahman made it to the tenth spot.
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