 "Direct your jokes here: Twitter welcomes Rahul Gandhi onboard")
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi finally has a Twitter account, or at least his office does. [caption id=“attachment_2199496” align=“alignleft” width=“300”]  Rahul Gandhi in a file photo. PTI[/caption] The account, now verified under the Twitter handle @OfficeOfRG, was created on Wednesday, but the first tweets only appeared on Thursday, which created confusion about whether the account was genuine or not among the then thirteen thousand followers (twenty five thousand now, and rising). Followers contemplated the silence from Gandhi and wondered what the future holds for his account:
Rahul Gandhi observing Twitter silence, over & out. http://t.co/6c8aUcQcKb @htTweets
— Rezaul Hasan Laskar (@Rezhasan) May 7, 2015
Errrr...why does RahulGandhi's twitter TL have no tweets? They launch the handle but no inaugural tweet. Whos teaching him social media?
— rama lakshmi (@RamaNewDelhi) May 7, 2015
@OfficeOfRG on Twitter now. And everyone is just talking about #SalmanVerdict. The stars are really against poor Rahul Gandhi.
— Sandip Roy (@sandipr) May 6, 2015
Breaking: Rahul Gandhi is on Twitter now: @OfficeOfRG. Direct your jokes here
— Gabbar (@GabbbarSingh) May 6, 2015
Impact Shorts
More ShortsDid #twitter just make some age exemption to allow #rahulgandhi?
— Lavanya. (@amlavanya) May 7, 2015
Gandhi had stayed away from the social media in the past and his is absence was seen as one of the factors that went against him in the general elections at a time Narendra Modi was using various social media forums to add momentum to his campaign.
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