Catch India's Biggest Twitter Stars Of 2014


BANGALORE: Twitter is the best-known microblogging platform, where many people are using it as a vital part of their communication. The use of Twitter by celebrities and politicians has become an important factor both for Twitter itself and for the celebrity users. The postings and pictures by celebrity users attract people to the site, which increases opportunity for advertising and publicity campaigns. Here is a list of India’s biggest twitter starts of 2014, as compiled by Economic Times.

#1.Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the world's second-most followed politician on Twitter, he has 8.9 million followers. According to Twitter, the most retweeted tweet in India was Prime Minister Narendra Modi's victory tweet "India has won! Bharat ki vijay, acche din aane wale hai! After BJP's win in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, he thanked various world leaders on Twitter when they tweeted their congratulatory messages to him. Recently, before his visit to Japan, he posted a series of tweets in Japanese.

#2.Deepika Padukone

Dimpled beauty Deepika Padukone, who played 'Leela' in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Ram Leela, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set in violent times. It is one of the highest-grossing Bollywood films of 2013 and also one of the most awarded ones, winning three Filmfare Awards out of eight nominations. Recently, when the film completed one year, Padukone changed her Twitter handle name to Leela to celebrate the success. She tweeted ''Thank you Sir for giving me one of the greatest experiences of my life!''  She has 8.65 million follower? on twitter.

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