'Blessed' Big B thanks Twitter followers on hitting 27 million mark

New Delhi [India], May 28 (ANI): Bollywood's superstar Amitabh Bachchan has now joined the list of A-listers who have crossed the 27-million-followers' mark on Twitter. The elated 74-year-old star, who is behind Prime Minister Narendra Modi who has more than 30.2 million followers, took to his Twitter handle and posted a picture of happy him from the movie 'Amar Akbar Anthony.' He captioned it as, "T 2437 - It is 27 million followers on Twitter !! 27 MILLION !! i am indeed honoured and blessed !!" <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">T 2437 - It is 27 million followers on Twitter !! 27 MILLION !! i am indeed honoured and blessed !! <a href="https://t.co/IPcVD4rNtk">pic.twitter.com/IPcVD4rNtk</a></p>&mdash; Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) <a href="https://twitter.com/SrBachchan/status/868556511965962240">May 27, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> The actor has given many hits like 'Sholay', 'Deewar,' 'Agneepath', 'Piku' and the list goes on. The 'Sarkar 3' star is ahead of Shah Rukh Khan with 25.1 million, Salman Khan with 23 million, Aamir Khan with 20.9 million, Priyanka Chopra with 17.4 million and Deepika Padukone 18.5 million Twitter followers. On the work front, the 'PINK' star is currently working on 'Thugs of Hindostan' alongside Aamir Khan and this will be the first time that the duo will be seen together on the big screen.(ANI)