Mahesh Babu clocks a new record

After tasting big success with 'Sarileru Neekevvaru,' superstar Mahesh Babu has achieved another feat. The actor enjoys a huge social media following besides his legion of fans.

The 'Dookudu' star reached a new milestone thus becoming the most followed South Indian celebrity on Twitter.

Mahesh touched the mighty nine million mark on Twitter when it comes to his followers. As he enjoys craze not only in Telugu but in other states as well, the actor amassed a huge following.

However, apart from the craze, also Mahesh promotes so many things on Twitter include movies of other heroes and from other languages.

Also, he responds on various issues, tweets about many things and regularly interacts with fans. That's what makes him special and made him fetch such huge following. Fans are celebrating this milestone very jubilantly now.

Other superstars like Pawan Kalyan (3.4 million followers), Allu Arjun (3.8 mn), Jr NTR (3.5 mn), Rajamouli (4.7 mn) and Ram Gopal Varma (3.9 mn) enjoy the best number of followers on Twitter after Mahesh, while Samantha (7.8 mn) and Trisha (5+ mn) also enjoy great following on the micro-blogging site.

Whereas, Bollywood stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Khan and Shahrukh Khan are followed by nearly 40+ million people on Twitter.