Amitabh Bachchan lives up to his superstar status even on the web world. After remaining connected to his worldwide fans through mediums such as blog, Twitter and till more recently, the voice blog, the megastar will now be available on the social networking website Facebook.
The actor tweeted last night, "T 842 - Ok .. some advance news .. Looks like I shall be on FaceBook from tomorrow ... looks like .. wait for confirmation !!"
The account went live this morning.
Bachchan wrote on the micro-blogging website, "T 843 - YIPPEE !! Am on FaceBook !! My ID :http://FaceBook.com/AmitabhBachchan . ANNDDD !! Its close to 8 lakhs in half an hour !! Keep it coming, Baby !"
The fan page also featured a video. In the video, the actor said, "Hello everybody! This is Amitabh Bachchan and I just want all of you to know that now I am on Facebook and this is a welcome device. The way the digital world is going is just unbelievable. And I thought that I would use facebook to connect with all my well- wishers yet again. You have been with me at Blog and Twitter and here is another medium that is now going to connect us even further. Year after year, month after month, day after day we are coming closer to each other. Lovely to have you here and we shall be seeing each other and you will get to know more about me and my daily activities where I go, what I do though this wonderful medium. Thanks for being with me on Facebook and we will be with you very shortly. Thank you."
At last count, there were 787,396 likes on his Facebook page.
We're sure the count will grow on, thick and fast.
