Amitabh Bachchan is the king of Twitter

Superstar Amitabh Bachchan has been ranked number one on Twitter, in terms of both popularity and activity.

In an analytics report of the most popular Bollywood stars on the website, Bachchan with 12 million followers topped the popularity list.

Digital services provider To The New rated various Bollywood celebrities on the basis of their popularity and their engagement with fans on Twitter.

The rank is based on an algorithm that combines the scores received for each measure i.e. total number of followers, absolute increase in followers and tweets per day.

Bachchan, 72, is followed by superstar Shah Rukh Khan (10.4 million followers) at number two and Abhishek Bachchan (5.4 million followers) at the third position.

Hrithik Roshan (7.7 million followers), Aamir Khan (10.1 million followers) and Salman Khan (9.5 million followers) have also made it to the list of the top 10 most popular Bollywood actors on Twitter.

Actresses in the list include Priyanka Chopra (8 million followers), Deepika Padukone, Sonam Kapoor and Sonakshi Sinha.

With an average of 20 tweets, re-tweets and replies per day, Bachchan also came out as the most active one among all.

His son Abhishek came second with an average of ten tweets a day. Anupam Kher, Shah Rukh Khan and Sinha are also among the most active.