Bill Gates Says "Hello from Tanzania" In His First Ever Post On Instagram!

The richest man in the world and the cofounder of Microsoft, Bill Gates becomes the newest follower of Instagram as he joins the Facebook owned photo-sharing platform with his very first post from Tanzania.

Gates made his very first post (a slideshow of three photos) on a Friday morning under the username "thisisbillgates" where he was pictured with a group of students in the classroom.

Hello from Tanzania, Instagram! I just had a great lunch with some amazing kids at Kicheba Primary School in Muheza and met Upendo Mwingira, a remarkable physician who has dedicated her career to fighting neglected tropical diseases. Melinda and I have been coming to Tanzania for many years now. I always love seeing how much progress the country has made to improve health and provide opportunity. Plus, the scenery is stunning. Whenever I travel to places like this, I wish others could come along and meet the people I get to meet. I have no doubt it would leave them as optimistic as I am about progress happening around the world. I’ll be sharing photos from my adventures here on Instagram, and I hope you’ll follow along.

A post shared by Bill Gates (@thisisbillgates) on Aug 11, 2017 at 9:58am PDT

This new development comes three weeks after Amazon Founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos joined Instagram. Also, Just a couple of weeks ago, Jeff Bezos edged over Bill Gates as the Worlds richest person on FORBES Real Time Billionaires list. A position which has since be reclaimed by Bill Gates.

Gates is already on Facebook and he has been on Twitter since June 2009.

Meanwhile, Instagram announced in April, 2017 that it had reached 700 million monthly active users with over 250 million of those using 'Stories' each day. While its Parent and sister companies, Facebook and Whatsapp, have 2 billion monthly users and 1 billion daily active users respectively.

Bill Gates is currently worth an estimated $89.5 billion, according to FORBES' real-time rankings, without the inclusion of the $31.1 billion that he has already donated to charity.

As of the morning, April 12, 2017, Bill Gates already has over 44,000 Instagram followers.