PETALING JAYA: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has gone to a whole new level in reaching out to the masses. His Twitter account has drawn more than 400,000 followers.
Signed in with the handle @NajibRazak, his number of followers hit the 400,000 mark at around 5pm yesterday, with at least another 1,000 following his account by 7pm.
“I got my 400,000th follower today! Thank you for your support, I look forward to more interactions with you all this year,” he said in a post which was also put up in Bahasa Malaysia.
An hour later, he tweeted that he was both delighted and humbled to obtain 400,000 Twitter followers and promised to do all he could for them and the nation.
While Najib is not the first Malaysian politician to become part of “Twitterjaya” – as Malaysian Twitter folks call the site – he is arguably among the most popular.
Najib, who started tweeting on Sept 21, 2008, has been actively engaging the public through the micro-blogging site, using his account to field questions, which he later responded to via videos posted on www.1malaysia.com.my.
No issue is too small for the Prime Minister, who took the trouble to personally respond to as many queries as possible – from posting birthday wishes to checking on bus availability for students in rural areas.
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