AR RAHMAN IS THE FIRST TAMIZHAN TO...

AR Rahman is someone who is very active on Twitter, be it sharing details about his recent works, any important audio release date announcements or birthday wishes, this most sought after music director has been constantly updating his Twitter space.

The ‘Mozart Of Madras’ is busy with projects like 24, Achcham Yenbadhu Madamaiyada, 2.0, Pele (Hollywood) and a couple of untitled Hindi flicks. Yesterday, the 29th of January, AR Rahman’s twitter handle cross the 10 million followers mark.

AR Rahman is the first person from Tamil Nadu to gain 10 million followers in Twitter. Some of the other Indian celebrities to have more than 10 million followers are Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Deepika Padukone, Narendra Modi and Salman Khan.

AR Rahman’s first tweet was back in 2009. He doesn’t follow anyone on Twitter and his total number of tweets amount up to 1006 till date. According to Twitter followers counter, he currently is at the 158th spot above Rafael Nadal, Jesscia Alba and Dwayne Johnson.