London (IINA) : Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai made her debut on Twitter on Friday evening with a simple ‘Hi’. She gains over 1,75,000 followers within hours of opening the Twitter account.

She joined the social media platform following her last day in school. “ Today is my last day of school and my first day on Twitter,” she wrote on her newly opened account. She has been offered a place at Oxford University. Yousafzai, who will be turning 20 this month, had been attending a school in the city of Birmingham where she was treated after the shooting in October 2012. Yousafzai has since become a global icon for girls’ education, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. “Graduating from secondary school (high school) is bittersweet for me,” she tweeted, adding: “I know that millions of girls around the world are out of school and may never get the opportunity to complete their education.”

Yousafzai, who will be turning 20 this month, had been attending a school in the city of Birmingham where she was treated after the shooting in October 2012. Yousafzai has since become a global icon for girls’ education, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. “Graduating from secondary school (high school) is bittersweet for me,” she tweeted, adding: “I know that millions of girls around the world are out of school and may never get the opportunity to complete their education.” But she said she was “excited” about her future and promised to continue “fighting for girls.”

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. In the years since, Yousafzai has become a regular speaker on the global stage, championing girls education. She lives in Britain, where she received medical treatment after she was shot, and completed her secondary education.