{"id":222424,"date":"2020-09-25T13:53:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T12:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=222424"},"modified":"2020-09-25T13:53:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T12:53:43","slug":"david-attenborough-breaks-instagram-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/david-attenborough-breaks-instagram-world-record\/","title":{"rendered":"David Attenborough Breaks Instagram World Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>British television icon David Attenborough has broken a social media world record &#8211; being the fastest person to reach 1 million followers on Instagram. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 94 year old joined the social media site this month, and managed to reach the 1 million followers milestone in a mere 4 hours and 44 minutes &#8211; which is world record by the way.<\/p>\n<p>The previous record holder was as Jennifer Anniston, who got to a million in just over 5 hours.<\/p>\n<p>His first, very fitting, video was to do with climate change, and the first story post was from the people behind the account &#8211; who explained social media isn\u2019t second nature to David like it is for many of us, so they\u2019re running the account and relaying his messages.<\/p>\n<p>Account runners Collin Butfield and Johnnie Hughes worked with Sir David on \u201cA Life On Our Planet\u201c, which an upcoming Netflix documentary many people are excited for.<\/p>\n<p>The pair explained: &#8220;Social media isn&#8217;t David&#8217;s usual habitat so while he&#8217;s recorded messages solely for Instagram, like the one in this post, we&#8217;re helping to run this account.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class='besclwp-iframe-outer'>\n<div class='besclwp-iframe Twitter'>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Congratulations to 94-year-old Sir David Attenborough who has become the fastest person to reach one million followers on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/instagram?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@instagram<\/a> \ud83d\ude4c<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hmJeusHs5Z\">https:\/\/t.co\/hmJeusHs5Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; GuinnessWorldRecords (@GWR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GWR\/status\/1309196148922617859?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>David featured in the video posted to his Instagram; the one talking about climate change. He has previously spoken about how there is still time to change the fate of the planet, but we are limited on time.<\/p>\n<p>In the video he explained: &#8220;I&#8217;ve been appearing on radio and television for the past 60 years, but this is my first time on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we all know, the world is in trouble. Continents are on fire. Glaciers are melting. Coral reefs are dying. Fish are disappearing from our oceans. The list goes on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we know what to do about it so that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m tackling this new way &#8211; for me &#8211; of communication.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the next few weeks I&#8217;ll be recording messages to explain what the problems are and how we can deal with them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Join me, or as we used to say in those early days of radio &#8211; stay tuned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We will Sir David, we will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British television icon David Attenborough has broken a social media world record &#8211; being the fastest person to reach 1 million followers on Instagram. \u00a0 The 94 year old joined the social media site this month, and managed to reach the 1 million followers milestone in a mere 4 hours and 44 minutes &#8211; which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":222427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2001,71,101,43],"class_list":["post-222424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-david-attenborough","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222428,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222424\/revisions\/222428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}