Nobel Peace laureate and women’s education proponent Malala Yousafzai has joined Twitter. ‘Today is my last day of school and my first day on Twitter,’ she wrote on her newly opened account, which gained more than 3,50,000 followers within 24 hours. Yousafzai 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, reports the Press Trust of India.

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’.

Yousafzai has excelled at school and is awaiting the results of her A-level exams next month. She has been offered a place to study at Oxford University.

She has chosen to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics, a prestigious course that has produced many British politicians and world leaders including late Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto.