Mumbai
Amitabh Bachchan’s count of Twitter followers clearly still rankles. Months after he semi-joked about quitting Twitter because his community had shrunk a bit, the 75-year-old actor has complained again. This time, he doesn’t sound like he’s joking. In a tweet accompanying a film still of himself down and out on the floor of a cage fight (1981’s Naseeb, we think), Mr Bachchan seems to accuse Twitter of deliberately failing to increase his follower count despite ‘maximum activity’ – “How do you keep the score board from not moving despite every ball being hit for a 6?” he asks.
In another tweet, Mr, Bachchan takes a more humble approach, “Arre yaar Twitter ji .. yaar ab toh hamare numbers badha do .. kab se itna kuch dal rahe hain .. kuch aur karna ho, number badhane ke liye to bolo… TJKBM !!!”
Although ‘TJKBM’ is till an unsolved mystery, may fans have their own theories on the twitter about the meaning of it. One of the most popular is ‘Twitter Ji Ki Badi Mahima’.
Then, Mr Bachchan’s follower count had slipped by a bit to 32.9 million, the same as Shah Rukh Khan’s. He’s at 34.3 million now but that doesn’t seem to have appeased him.
No idea if Twitter is listening but perhaps the reason Amitabh Bachchan minds so much is that Shah Rukh Khan’s Twitter followers now number 35.2 million.
Whoops.
It’s not a race, though, Mr Bachchan. And at 75, you are a whole lot savvier than younger colleagues – like Ranbir Kapoor, Kangana Ranaut and Kareena Kapoor, none of whom are even on social media.
Don’t count. Keep calm and carry on tweeting.
