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Bill Gates just joined the social media site. His first post is from Tanzania, where he had lunch with students at the Kicheba Primary School in Muheza. "Melinda and I have been coming to Tanzania for many years now," the post reads. "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," Gates continues. "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." In the two days Gates has been on Instagram, he has gained 190,000 followers. On Twitter, he has a following of 37.4 million. On July 20, billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos joined Instagram. Bezos' first post was a drone video announcing a new rocket ...

  Boss Jeff Bezos briefly overtook Bill Gates as the world's richest person on Thursday following a surge in the online retailer's shares ahead of its earnings report, before the stock fell back again. The e-commerce magnate, who was the fourth richest person at the beginning of the year, overtook Microsoft co-founder Gates earlier in the day after Amazon shares rose 1.8pc to $1,071 (£820).   However, shares later dropped back, closing down 0.7pc at $1,046, meaning the 53-year-old Bezos has not yet replaced Gates as number one on the Forbes Billionaire's list. Bezos is now worth $88.5bn. The share price move came hours before Amazon posted quarterly earnings in which it said profit had fallen 77pc on a year earlier. This was due to it ramping up investment spend on video content and international expansion.   Gates, who is worth $89.7bn, has been the wealthiest person in the world since May 2013. The philanthropic billionaire has given away $31.1bn of his wealth to...