reaking records isn't anything new for the Master Blaster and he proved that on Wednesday afternoon at about 2.30 pm, when he became the first Indian on Twitter to reach a million followers.
Only last week, we had spotted that the Master Blaster overtook Shashi Tharoor as the No 1 Indian on Twitter.
The run up to Sachin scoring a million on the popular microblogging site has been bolstered by fans and friends, who've all been urging users to follow the World Cup star.
On Tuesday, friend and photographer Atul Kasbekar tweeted, "@sachin_rt is just 2000+ followers from a million, btw do I get a 'Twitter-Ratna' (or similar) for getting him on board? #justasking."
Last week Shahid Kapur had also urged his own fans to help Sachin cross the million-follower mark. "@sachin_rt 25 k away from a mill followers ... Make it happen today people .... He the legend !!!!"
In spite of his mammoth following, the Little Master has posted just 237 tweets, his most recent being before the clash between his IPL team Mumbai Indians and the Kochi Tuskers Kerala on April 15. "First match after 2nd April on the same ground.What an unbelievable evening that was.I m so excited to step on the same field again today:-)," he tweeted.
Other tweeters of Indian origin such as Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior (@padmasree) and technology writer Om Malik(@om) have already passed the mark with 1.39 and 1.25 million followers respectively, though Sachin is be the first Indian citizen to do so.
| Celeb | Handle | Followers* |
| Sachin Tendulkar | @sachin_rt | 1,000,000 |
| Shashi Tharoor | @ShashiTharoor | 985,786 |
| Priyanka Chopra | @priyankachopra | 955,733 |
| Shah Rukh Khan | @iamsrk | 860,654 |
| Amitabh Bachchan | @SrBachchan | 718,585 |
| Salman Khan | @BeingSalmanKhan | 671,437 |
| Deepika Padukone | @deepikapadukone | 658,264 |
| Aamir Khan | @aamir_khan | 652,142 |
| Preity Zinta | @realpreityzinta | 587,586 |
| Hrithik Roshan | @iHrithik | 554,726 |
| Vir Sanghvi | @virsanghvi | 472,259 |
| Shahid Kapoor | @shahidkapoor | 461,688 |
| Sonam Kapoor | @sonamakapoor | 458,637 |
| Yuvraj Singh | @yuvsingh09 | 457,830 |
| Karan Johar | @kjohar25 | 443,097 |
| Vijay Mallya | @TheVijayMallya | 362,380 |
| Lalit Modi | @LalitKModi | 323,502 |
| MS Dhoni | @msdhoni | 312,072 |
| Virender Sehwag | @virendersehwag | 255,037 |
| Zaheer Khan | @ImZaheer | 244,570 |
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