Salman Khan rules social media, pips Shahrukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan


When a channel that recently hosted its annual awards thought of honoring an actor with biggest fan following on the social media, they roped in some experts to analyze the current trend, and whoa! the result wasn’t surprising. It was the one and only Salman Khan emerging on top.
Tue, Jan 15, 2013, There is no denying that Salman Khan is the hero of the masses, but the star is equally popular among the Gen Y. According to the statistics that came to the picture after analysis, Salman not only has many followers on twitter, his list of fans on Facebook is only increasing. As a daily reports, the research showed that Salman Khan had 7,408,859 fans on Facebook, 3,188,226 followers on Twitter, 60,567 videos on YouTube, 577,919 followers on Twitter fan clubs, 757,057 fans on Facebook fan clubs and 2,774 followers on Google+.  Talking about the web analysis, a source says that millions of pages were scanned on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Youtube, blogs and several online forums to measure the total volume of buzz and conversations on the stars. It was actually a four-phase process. Divulging further details, the source tells a daily, “A shortlist of 30+ possible candidates was developed in the first phase. We developed 25 parameters to rank the candidates on the total volume of buzz. Using this 4 phase process we came to a single score and the top three candidates were Salman Khan, Shahrukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan. And Salman Khan emerged as the winner with a consistently high margin.” We can see Salman’s ardent bhakts gleaming with pride. Source: ArticleImage