The message is loud and clear. Not Bollywood, Southern cinema dominates Twitter. Every time a film from Kollywood, Tollywood and other southern film industries makes news, it also manages to create a lot of buzz on the micro-blogging site as well.

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Twitter recently announced its report on the most influential moments of 2017 and The Golden Tweet of 2017 which belongs to southern superstar – Suriya Sivakumar. The actor's particular tweet when he unveiled the second poster of his upcoming movie – Thaana Serndha Kootam. It earned a whopping 112, 984 likes and 68, 808 retweets! Thaana Serndha Kootam is directed by Vignesh Shivn, and also stars Keerthy Suresh. This film will see both actor team up for the first time and is all set for a glorious Pongal release in 2018.

Suriya has managed to beat the likes Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar, Hrithik Roshan who also enjoy a massive fan following on social media. 

The southern domination on Twitter doesn't end here. Apart from bagging the most retweeted tweet of this year, south has also made its presence felt in Hashtag trends. Mersal starring Thalapathy Vijay managed to rake in a whopping 1.7 million tweets in three days, thus becoming the top hashtag trend in 2017. The buzz, the controversies and the reviews unfurling around Mersal now has a number!

In spite of the film creating huge controversies, Mersal went to became a big success post release. Another pride of southern cinema in 2017 was Baahubali 2. This SS Rajamouli was also the top hashtags. While Baahubali introduced to a new 1000 crore club at the box-office, Vijay's Mersal has become the only Tamil film to earn Rs 250 crore at the box office worldwide.