RBI becomes world’s first monetary authority with a million Twitter followers
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RBI becomes world’s first monetary authority with a million Twitter followers

India's monetary authority has beaten the US Federal Reserve and European Central Bank on Twitter by emerging as the most popular central bank on the microblogging site.

   
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) logo | Vivek Prakash | Bloomberg

Representational Image of Indian banks | Vivek Prakash | Bloomberg

New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India on Sunday became the first central bank in the world to have more than one million followers on its Twitter handle.

RBI governor Shaktikanta Das congratulated his colleagues on this occasion. Das has a separate Twitter handle with 1.37 lakh followers. “RBI Twitter account reaches one million followers today. A new milestone. Congratulations to all my colleagues in RBI,” he tweeted.

India’s monetary authority has beaten the US Federal Reserve and European Central Bank on Twitter by emerging as the most popular central bank on the microblogging site with one million followers.

Currently, the RBI handle is followed by as many as 10,00,513 people around the world.


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