His twitter handle, @AAliZardari, began to trend late on Tuesday night thanks to a tweet from his son, and PPP patron in chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. Bilawal has more than 91,000 followers on Twitter.
Official account of President Asif Ali Zardari. @AAliZardari #PPP
— BilawalBhuttoZardari (@BBhuttoZardari) November 26, 2013
Aseefa Bhutto Zardari, the daughter of the former president, also welcomed her father on Twitter.
The OFFICIAL account of Asif Ali Zardari @AAliZardari Co-chariman Pakistan Peoples Party #PPP... HI BABA!! :D x
— Aseefa B Zardari (@AseefaBZ) November 26, 2013
At the time of writing, Zardari had over 1,200 followers and it was rising fast.
He is so far following just four accounts. The official Pakistan Peoples Party twitter account, his son Bilawal and daughters Bakhtawar and Aseefa.
Zardari is the second former President of Pakistan to be represented on the social media site. General Pervez Musharraf has been on Twitter for a while with the account initially being managed by his office. It was not immediately clear if Zardari's account was being operated by the former President or by his office.
Reactions
Soon after Zardari's account was advertised by the widely followed Bilawal and Aseefa, people reacted to seeing the former President on twitter.
Please extend a WARM WELCOME to Former Prez-Co-Chairman #PPP @AAliZardari on Twitter.We are so HAPPY to have you on @Twitter Mr. President!
— PPP (@MediaCellPPP) November 26, 2013
Soon :) “@BBhuttoZardari: @abidifactor @AAliZardari Uncle Altaf should join as well. :)”
— Syed Ali Raza Abidi (@abidifactor) November 26, 2013
Now following @AAliZardari - the fighter who disappoints his critics and haters all the time.
— Raza Ahmad Rumi (@Razarumi) November 26, 2013
https://twitter.com/mirza9/status/405419471428280320
@ @SenRehmanMalik @BBhuttoZardari @AAliZardari Zardari Khappe, Khappe, Khappe !!
— Haider Ali (@HaddieAli) November 26, 2013
Million +++ RT“@MurtazaGeoNews: Asif Ali Zardari enters the Twitter sphere to fight it out with his critics - millions of them”
— Aqib (@Aqib_AHH) November 26, 2013
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