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"Amitabh Bachchan has over 800,000 likes after creating his first Facebook account . The actor posted a video of himself at his residence in Jalsa, in which he describes the social networking site as a &amp;quot;welcome device&amp;quot;.  Bachchan announced the launch of his Facebook page on Twitter a night before, saying: &amp;quot;T 842 - Ok .. some advance news .. Looks like I shall be on FaceBook from tomorrow ... looks like .. wait for confirmation !!&amp;quot; He later tweeted: &amp;quot;T 843 - YIPPEE !! Am on FaceBook !! My ID : http://FaceBook.com/AmitabhBachchan . ANNDDD !! Its close to 8 lakhs in half an hour !! Keep it coming, Baby !&amp;quot; NDTV Movies reports that Bachchan had 780,000 &amp;#039;likes&amp;#039; within an hour of joining the site. The 69-year-old actor has been a strong advocate of social media, utilising Twitter, his written blog and a voice blog to interact with his fans, who he describes as his &amp;quot;extended family&amp;quot;. With over 3 million followers, the actor is the most popular Bollywood star on Twitter, ahead of both Shah Rukh Khan and Priyanka Chopra. &amp;quot;T 842 - Just a hop skip away from 3.3 million followers .. !!! Thank you all without you it would never have been possible !!,&amp;quot; he tweeted previously. The star&amp;#039;s Twitter handle was recently confirmed as the highest-valued Indian account on the microblogging site, worth an estimated \u00C2\u00A3740,809 ($1.14m). "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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