Shah Rukh Khan crosses 17 million followers, 2nd most followed Indian

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has crossed the 17 million followers mark on popular social media website Twitter. Khan is the 2nd most followed Indian on Twitter, behind the legendary Amitabh Bachchan and ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

At the beginning of the year, Aamir Khan came within touching distance of Shah Rukh. The difference in the number of followers between the two was less than 2 lakhs, but the gap has now widened quite considerably both because Aamir isn’t very active on Twitter and the fact that he didn’t have any movie release in 2015.

Shah Rukh has also narrowed the gap between him and Amitabh Bachchan.

Exactly a year ago, Amitabh Bachchan had 12.4 million followers, SRK had 10.6 million, Aamir was at 10.4 million, Salman was at 9.9 million and PM Modi in the 5th position with 9.5 million followers.

A lot has changed in one year and it’ll be interesting to see which Indian will be the first to cross 20 million and 25 million milestones in the coming year.

Check out Top 5 most followed Indians on Twitter

• Amitabh Bachchan – 18,580,063 followers
• Shah Rukh Khan – 17,018,739 followers (-1,561,324 fewer than Amitabh Bachchan)
• Narendra Modi – 17,001,516 followers (-17,223 fewer than SRK)
• Aamir Khan – 15,891,711 followers (-1,109,805 fewer than PM Modi)
• Salman Khan – 15,458,131 followers (-433,580 fewer than Aamir)