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Renowned British broadcaster Sir David Attenborough has joined Instagram, and soon triumphed as the top user to earn a follower count of a million within four hours and 44 minutes.

The Guinness World Records reported that Attenborough had shattered the record preciously held by Friends star Jennifer Aniston, who reached the same follower count in five hours and 16 minutes.

In his debut post, Attenborough said, “I am making this move and exploring this new way of communication to me because, as we all know, the world is in trouble.”



With the caption, “Saving our planet is now a communications challenge,” the 94-year-old’s post highlighted the daunting circumstances of climate change on Earth.

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David Attenborough has spent a lifetime travelling, exploring the wild places of our planet and documenting the living world in all its variety and wonder. He’s also witnessed the damaged caused. Saving our planet is now a communications challenge. We know what to do, we just need the will. That’s why we want to share this message on Instagram. Because there is hope and together, we can inspire change. Social media isn’t David’s usual habitat so while he’s recorded messages solely for Instagram, like the one in this post, we're helping to run this account. In case you’re wondering, ‘we’ are Jonnie and Colin and we worked with David on A Life On Our Planet. So, as well as sharing the messages he’s recorded especially for this account we’ll also post some exclusive clips and behind the scenes content. Stay tuned.

A post shared by A Life On Our Planet (@davidattenborough) on Sep 24, 2020 at 2:00am PDT

[via BBC, cover image via lev radin / Shutterstock.com]

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