After the God of cricket, Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt), joining twitter, here comes another living legend, the Paa of Bollywood , the Big B- Amitabh Bachchan as @SrBachchan , to the most popular social networking website.  His first tweet was addressed to his own son, Abhishek Bachchan aka @juniorbachchan.  Big B tweets as follows ” @juniorbachchan hey baby !! I made it on twitter !!! Yeeaaaaaahhhh !! … sorry.. just got carried away .. safe onward flight and love” ( 18 May 2010 , 11:02 AM IST)

His twitter handle must have been inspired by Abhishek Bachchan’s @juniorbachchan and most probably, it must be Abhishek who urged him to join the networking site.

Media man @PritishNandy was one of the first celebrities  to confirm BigB’s arrival “@SrBachchan Arrey, when we met last evening you never mentioned you were coming on twitter! Welcome. This is the place to be.”

The Junior Bachchan announces later ” Ladies and gentlemen. HE IS HERE!!!” and he tweets further “BigB in da house!!!! @srbachchan welcome Pa. Show him the love tweeps!!”

This is not the first time BigB on  a social networking site. He  himself blogs at bigb.bigadda.com regularly.

And there begins the mad race of tweeps following the Senior Bachchan on twitter ! The account is not verified yet but tweeps trusts the confirmation from the other known celebrities on twitter.

Thanks to Mid-day reporter Aditya Anand for sharing with me this news of BigB joining twitter.

To follow Amitabh Bachchan on Twitter, head straight to the link  http://twitter.com/srbachchan and click “follow” !

Update@ 18:27 PM : After @juniorbachchan, Big B follows @sachin_rt and tweets “@sachin_rt Sachin !! a delight to connect to you. Are you out of the water yet ? lifebelts and all !! have fun”

Update May 22, 2010 : The account is now “verified” by twitter.