Priyanka gets over 1-lakh Twitter followers within hours, Tharoor says ‘social media superstar’ born

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday joined Twitter and garnered a massive response, attracting over one lakh followers on the social media platform within 10 hours. Comparing her first-day popularity on the micro-blogging website to that of Tamil superstar Rajinikanth, senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor hailed her as a “new superstar on social media”.
Tharoor, who is among the first from Congress to have joined the Twitter bandwagon and the party’s second most-followed leader after its president Rahul Gandhi on this medium, said “Rajnikanth was the only person who in his his first 24 hours on Twitter got 2 lakh followers.

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