Malala joins Twitter; opens with thread on education and equality for girls across the world
She had 160,000 followers in her first four hours of joining the site
Malala Yousafzai, the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize winner, made her Twitter debut on Friday evening and in a span of four hours ended up with 1,63,000 followers.
In her first seven tweets, which became a thread, Malala wrote, “Hi, Twitter. Today is my last day of school and my first day on Twitter. Graduating from secondary school (high school) is bittersweet for me. I'm excited about my future, but I know that millions of girls around the world are out of school and may never get the opportunity to complete their education. Next week, I will be back on my #GirlPowerTrip to meet girls in Middle East, Africa & Latin America. Each girl’s story is unique β— βand girls' voices are our most powerful weapons in the fight for education and equality. On and off Twitter, I'm fighting for girls —β will you join me?β”
A regular speaker on the global stage, Yousafzai visited refugee camps in Rwanda and Kenya last July to highlight the plight of refugee girls from Burundi and Somalia.