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

Julian Edelman and the Patriots broke out their best "The Office" reaction GIFs.

Tom Brady Gisele Bündchen
Gisele Bündchen welcomed Tom Brady to Twitter after his April Fools' Day joke. Matt Winkelmeyer / Getty Images for UCLA Institute of the Environment & Sustainability

By Tommy McArdle

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

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.

Gisele Bündchen is just happy to see her husband on Twitter.

Former Patriots wide receiver Donté Stallworth welcomed his old quarterback a little differently.

The Patriots’ Twitter account was not amused.

They found the legendary quarterback’s account by searching for ‘goats.’

Former Pats linebacker Tedy Bruschi laughed as Brady dipped his feet into the Twitter-verse.

The Celtics made appropriate use of the goat emoji.

Twitter itself seemed to approve.

https://twitter.com/Twitter/status/1112759453764538371

Buffalo Wild Wings advised Tom there’s no going back on a tweet.