Dilip Kumar joins Twitter

MUMBAI: Legendary Bollywood actor Muhammad Yusuf Khan, popularly known as Dilip Kumar, who turned 89 recently has joined the microblogging website Twitter as TheDilipKumar.

In his welcome message to Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan tweeted: "T 587 - Please welcome the Master, the Thespian, the Ultimate .. Dilip Kumar, Dilip Saheb, Yusuf Khan on twitter ..ID : thedilipkumar".

The legend has just 5,225 followers and following only two that includes Amitabh Bachchan (SrBachchan) and Shah Rukh Khan (iamsrk).

"Thank you all of you who have made my simple life so rich with all your love," was the first message by Dilip Kumar sent yesterday.