In a first among central banks, the Reserve Bank of India has become the first monetary authority in the world to have more than 1 million followers on its official Twitter handle.

Despite much less monetary firepower, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has beaten the world’s most powerful central banks — the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank — on Twitter by a wide margin, emerging as the most popular central bank on the microblogging site with over 1 million followers.

As of Sunday, the RBI handle is followed by as many as 10,00,513 people around the world. Eighty-five-year-old Reserve Bank has been a latecomer in the world of Twitter as it created the account in January 2012.

According to latest information on the RBI’s Twitter handle “RBI”, the number of followers has increased from 9.66 lakh on September 27, 2020 to over 10 lakh as of Sunday. “The RBI Twitter account reaches 1 million followers today. A new milestone. Congratulations to all my colleagues in the RBI,” governor Shaktikanta Das tweeted on Sunday.