As Twitter turned eight on March 21, it allowed users to discover their first tweets.
Some of these celebrities, who were clearly uneasy with the social platform, have since then taken to it like a fish takes to water. Here is our list of the first tweets by our Bollywood favourites:
Testing. Aamir.
— Aamir Khan (@aamir_khan) June 30, 2010
hey guys! yes, yes it's really me. thank you troon (thats tarun mansukhani). so people…….JrB is in da house!
— Abhishek Bachchan (@juniorbachchan) November 3, 2009
So after all that coaxing by my digitally savvy daughters, I am finally on twitter. Let's connect !
— Anil Kapoor (@AnilKapoor) August 20, 2013
figuring this out
— ANUSHKA SHARMA (@AnushkaSharma) July 8, 2009
my first tweet ever……..discovering this mad mad banter :)
— Huma Qureshi (@humasqureshi) June 14, 2011
@juniorbachchan hey baby !! I made it on twitter !!! Yeeaaaaaahhhh !! … sorry.. just got carried away .. safe onward flight and love
— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) May 18, 2010
hi everyone. being extremely shy i never thought i would be here. but my friend @kjohar25 insisted that i should learn to share my life.
— SHAH RUKH KHAN (@iamsrk) January 2, 2010
just found out a fake preity zinta has a 140000 following on while the real one is in shock !!!! I think i nead Karan Johar to help me :-)
— Preity zinta (@realpreityzinta) October 30, 2009
For all of my fans, finally I have joined Twitter. Love, Madhuri
— Madhuri Dixit-Nene (@MadhuriDixit) November 27, 2010
hey guys iam no longer a twitter virgin,initially had performance anxiety but what the heck,..thank u for all the SOTY love,big love Sid
— Sidharth Malhotra (@S1dharthM) November 15, 2012
Hello everyone, yes I am finally here thanks to Mr. Kjo…..so lets discover what twitter is all about…right now on the sets of Stepmom..
— arjun rampal (@rampalarjun) January 30, 2010
Every day is a promise life honors…how beautiful it is to be alive:-)
— sushmita sen (@thesushmitasen) November 9, 2009
tweet tweet!!its 5 am and all my tweetmates must be fast asleep…so i welcome myself to twitterverse…:-)
— Deepika Padukone (@deepikapadukone) January 5, 2010
Arbaaz ne kaha ke tweet kar toh banta hai boss
— Salman Khan (@BeingSalmanKhan) April 13, 2010
Hello guys! late entry in twitterverse but nevertheless am here now. A big thank you to all my fans for helping me become who I am 2day♥.
— Bipasha Basu (@bipsluvurself) July 4, 2010
Hello everyone. Thanks to my daughters, I am finally on twitter. I'm still learning but I will try to be in regular touch with all of you.
— Sridevi Boney Kapoor (@SrideviBKapoor) August 7, 2012
Spread humanity with a vengeance, GO WATCH MY NAME IS KHAN. ..and for the record, my name is HRITHIK ROSHAN.
— Hrithik Roshan (@iHrithik) February 11, 2010
Published in The Express Tribune, March 22nd, 2014.
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