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Malala Joins Twitter, Gains Over 100K Followers In 30 Minutes

Darpan News Desk, 07 Jul, 2017 12:52 PM

    Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai made her debut on Twitter on Friday evening with a simple ‘Hi’.

     

    The 19-year-old joined the social media platform following her last day in school and within an hour-and-a-half had a 115,000 followers.

     
     
     

    On Twitter, Yousafzai announced her Girl Power Trip to meet girls in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.

     
     

    The Pakistani education activist came into prominence when a Taliban gunman shot her in the head in 2012 as she was leaving school in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, northwest of the country’s capital Islamabad. She was targeted for her campaign against efforts by the Taliban to deny women education.

     

    In 2014, at 17 years of age she became the youngest person to win the Nobel peace prize.

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