RBI becomes only central bank in world to get a million followers on Twitter
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RBI becomes only central bank in world to get a million followers on Twitter

New Delhi: With a million Twitter followers, the Reserve Bank of India has grow to be the primary central financial institution on the earth to achieve this milestone.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has overwhelmed the US Federal Reserve and European Central Bank on Twitter by rising as the preferred central financial institution on the microblogging website with a million followers.

As per the most recent info accessible on the RBI’s twitter deal with ‘@RBI’, the variety of followers has elevated from 9.66 lakh on September 27, 2020 to at least one million or 10 lakh.

“RBI Twitter account reaches one million followers today. A new milestone. Congratulations to all my colleagues in RBI,” Governor Shaktikanta Das stated in a tweet on Sunday.

In distinction to this, the world’s strongest central financial institution, the US Federal Reserve, has solely 6.67 lakh Twitter followers and the Frankfurt-headquartered European Central Bank (ECB), the second strongest financial authority on the earth, has 5.91 lakh followers.

US Fed joined Twitter in March 2009, whereas ECB has been energetic on the microblogging website since October 2009.

The 85-year-old RBI received a Twitter account in January 2012. Governor Das has a separate Twitter deal with with 1.35 lakh followers.

Since March 2019, the rely of followers has greater than doubled from nearly 3,42,000 to over 7,50,000 by March 2020.

During the continuing seven-week lockdown that started from March 25, the variety of followers has elevated by greater than 1.5 lakh, an official stated.

In the present monetary 12 months, as many as 2.5 lakh new followers joined the deal with.

Besides, its predominant Twitter deal with, RBI has one other Twitter account known as ‘RBI Says’ and in addition began a Facebook web page with the identical title in early April. At that point, it additionally launched a buyer consciousness marketing campaign to forestall gullible account holders from being duped by fraudsters. 

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