Australia's leading wicket-taker Shane Warne put in a request to Twitter followers on Friday, for reaching the `1 million followers' mark on the popular microblogging site by Christmas.

In his Friday tweet making the plea, Warne said: "Question. How can I make you laugh more, entertain you more or is there any tips u want from me? Help me get to 1mill followers by Xmas xxx."

At the time the tweet was posted, Warne needed nearly 15,000 followers to reach the `1 million' milestone. Warne is an ardent user of Twitter; and his posts generally include tweets about his appearances for the Melbourne Stars in the BBL; his life with Hurley; and his promotion of a wide array of products - including cars - and events such as poker tournaments.

His recent plea for reaching `1 million' Twitter followers by Christmas was responded to by the Fox Sports Cricket team - @FoxCricketLive - which introduced the hashtag #getshaneamil by inviting him to the live blog for the Australia vs. Sri Lanka Boxing Day Test.

Meanwhile, even after reaching the `1 million Twitter followers' landmark, Warne will still be well behind some of the other well-known Twitter users, like Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, and Shaquille O'Neal, who respectively have 14.9 million, 13.8 million, 6.4 million followers on the social networking site.