The number of followers on RBI’s Twitter has crossed 10 lakh. The Reserve Bank is the first central bank in the world to achieve this feat. With 1 million followers on the microblogging site, the Reserve Bank has overtaken the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank (UCB) of the US.
According to the information available on the Reserve Bank’s Twitter handle, its number of followers was 9.66 lakh on September 27, 2020, which has now increased to 10 lakh. Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das tweeted on Sunday, “The number of followers on the Twitter account of the Reserve Bank has increased to 10 lakh today. Congratulations to all my colleagues in the Reserve Bank for this. “
After RBI, the central bank which has the highest number of followers on Twitter is Banco de Mexico, the central bank of Mexico. This bank has 7.74 lakh followers. It is followed by Bank of Indonesia with 7.57 lakh followers. The Federal Reserve, the world’s most powerful central bank, has only 6.67 lakh followers on Twitter and is at number four. At the same time, the European central bank is at number five with 5.91 lakh followers.
