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How Julian Edelman, Tedy Bruschi, and the rest of Twitter reacted to Tom Brady’s arrival

Tom Brady joined Twitter Monday afternoon for an April Fools’ Day joke claiming he would retire and spend his newfound free time tweeting.

Was this a bad joke?

— Tom Brady (@TomBrady) April 1, 2019

As Brady’s follower count skyrocketed (he accumulated 127.5k followers by 3:30 p.m.) reactions from his teammates, Gisele Bündchen, and others poured in. Brady even responded to his own tweet to ask the world whether his joke was bad.

Here are some of the top responses to Brady’s first tweets:

Julian Edelman was not interested in any Brady retirement talk.