Salman Khan joins Twitter

Twitter is the favourite haunt of Bollywood stars like Shahrukh Khan, Karan Johar, Arjun Rampal, Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone.

The 44-year-old actor has become it's latest entrant and he joined the website on the advise of his brother Arbaaz Khan.

"Arbaaz ne kaha ke tweet kar toh banta hai boss (Arbaaz told me to tweet so I had to)," Salman wrote in his first tweet.

Within a few hours of him joining Twitter, Salman has gained 2,150 followers.

"Challo nw , who ever was being me , party over , baju hatto plz (sic)," Salman wrote in another post.

Salman was welcomed on the website by veteran actor Shammi Kapoor and Riteish Deshkmukh.

"Hello Salman bete. Welcome," wrote Shammi Kapoor while Ritesih said, "Hey a big shout out to the best looking man, a super actor and a friend SALMAN KHAN @BeingSalmanKhan give him all the love tweeps."