MUMBAI: After having been connected with his fans through the online medium via his blog and Twitter, Amitabh Bachchan has made himself available on social networking site Facebook too.

Within just an hour of the activation, the page received 784,417 likes.

"Yipee! I am on FaceBook! My ID: FaceBook.com/AmitabhBachchan," the 69-year-old tweeted.

"And!! It has already crossed a million and I am humbled. Keep it coming, Baby," he tweeted.

Amitabh‘s fan-page became visible on Tuesday morning when the megastar also published a video taken from his home Jalsa.

"Hello everybody! This is Amitabh Bachchan and I just want all of you to know that now I am on Facebook and this is a welcome device. The way the digital world is going is just unbelievable. And I thought that I would use Facebook to connect with all my well wishers yet again. You have been with me on Blog and Twitter and here is another medium that is now going to connect us even further.

"Year-after-year, month-after-month, day-after-day, we are coming closer to each other. Lovely to have you here and we shall be seeing each other and you will get to know more about me and my daily activities where I go, what I do though this wonderful medium. Thanks for being with me on Facebook. Thank you," the mega star says on the video.