Happy New Year everyone! We’re back from the holidays and with the start of 2013, we bring to you the top 10 re-tweeted celebrity new year messages for the upcoming year. Shah Rukh Khan remained at the top with 1680 re-tweets while second and third positions were claimed by Shahid Kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan respectively. Apart from the following top 10 re-tweets, the celebs whose tweets could not get into this list with the number of re-tweets are Shreya Ghoshal (356), Narendra Modi (330), Preity Zinta (272), Abhishek Bachchan (259), Bipasha Basu (221), Madhuri Dixit (220), Virender Sehwag (203), Anupam Kher (174), Shilpa Shetty (140), Farhan Akhtar (121), Emraan Hashmi (115), Dia Mirza (106) and Dhanush K Raja (101).
Shah Rukh Khan
Shah Rukh Khan’s tweet got some 1,725 re-tweets and 1,056 favourites. The message is being RTed even today.
SRK’s new year tweet
Shahid Kapoor
Shahid Kapoor’s new year message hit the people’s mind at the right time and his eligible tweet got some 1,662 re-tweets and 931 favourites. His first message on the same topic, however, got few more than 400 RTs.
Shahid Kapoor’s new year message
Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan, however hurt by the rape incident in Delhi, greeted his Twitter followers with a wish and his tweet got some 1,108 re-tweets and 830 favourites.
Amitabh Bachchan’s new year tweet
Priyanka Chopra
Piggy Chops greeted her followers with an inspirational message and got some 653 re-tweets and 453 favourites.
Priyanka Chopra’s new year message
Virat Kohli
Virat Kohli is the first cricketer to appear in this list whose tweet got some 650 RTs and 744 favourites.
Virat Kohli’s new year tweet
Hrithik Roshan
Hrithik Roshan’s tweet got 541 RTs and 603 favourites.
Hrithik’s Roshan’s new year tweet
Yuvraj Singh
Yuvraj Singh, who is also playing well after recovering from cancer, is the second cricketer to appear in this list and his tweet got 433 RTs and 408 favourites.
Yuvraj Singh’s new year tweet
Karan Johar
Karan Johar’s tweet got 415 RTs and 286 favourites.
Karan Johar’s new year message
Akshay Kumar
Akshay Kumar posted a rather quirky tweet which got 365 RTs & 318 favourites.
Akshay Kumar’s new year message
Sonam Kapoor
Sonam Kapoor posted an inspirational message along with her new year tweet which got some 364 RTs and 238 favourites.
Sonam Kapoor’s new year message
Celebrities who got lesser than 100 re-tweets are Shruti Haasan (98), Vivek Oberoi (94), Lara Dutta (87), Riteish Deshmukh (84), Sania Mirza (83), Mallika Sherawat (81), Asha Bhosle (73), Lisa Ray (62), R Madhavan (60), Nargis Fakhri (53), Narain Karthikeyan (49), Ishant Sharma (44), Neil Nitin Mukesh (44), Sridevi (40), Sreesanth (36), Shashi Tharoor (34), Sushmita Sen (32), Juhi Chawla (31), Prachi Desai (30), Ameesha Patel (26), Raveena Tandon (25), Aftab Shivdasani (22), Rudra Pratap Singh (22), Manoj Tiwary (14), Shirish Kunder (14), Mahesh Bhupathi (11), Milind Deora (11), Dino Morea (10), Naveen Jindal (10), Shreyas Talpade (10), Akash Chopra (9) and Swapan Dasgupta (8).
Celebrities who escaped from tweeting a new year greetings includes Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh, Ajay Devgn, Salman Khan, Sonakshi Sinha, Arbaaz Khan, Alia Bhatt, Siddharth Mallya, Shekhar Kapur, Deepika Padukone, Ayushmann Khurana, Aamir Khan, Pooja Bhatt, Sachin Tendulkar, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, A R Rahman, Boman Irani, Arshad Warsi, Rahul Bose, Sanjay Dutt, Shabana Azmi and Dilip Kumar.
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