KUALA LUMPUR: Former Malaysian prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad drew more than 47,000 followers on his Thursday Instagram debut.
Under the name "chedetofficial”, Dr Mahathir's first ever Instagram post is that of him with his wife, Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali.
The photo showed the two of them sharing a light-hearted moment.
"Today I start my Instagram account with a photograph with Siti Hasmah.
"My wife for 62 years, who is always faithfully with me since then.
“As doctors, laughter is indeed the best medicine,” the 92-year-old wrote in his first post.
His first post garnered more than 33,000 likes and 3,000 comments.
Netizens praised the couple as cute and adorable.
fredrawing wrote: God always blessing you Tun M.
gozienz wrote: Welcome Tun! Never to old to catch up with tech.
Dr Mahathir has been blogging since May 2008 through the site chedet.cc which has recorded over 28.5 million visitors to date.
He also has a Facebook account under the name @TunDrMahathir and a twitter account with the handle @chedetofficial.