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Gillard joins the Twitteratti

New PM joins the popular social networking site

Julia Gillard has finally joined the social networking site Twitter - and she's sent it into a Sunday afternoon frenzy.

Ms Gillard had been maintaining a dignified silence on Twitter, which other politicians appear addicted to.

But commensurate with her new role running the country, Ms Gillard joined the internet age on Sunday.

Tweeting under "JuliaGillard", the prime minister said: "I've decided it's time to take the Twitter plunge! Hopefully Ill master it. JG."

Within half an hour of her first tweet, Ms Gillard had surged to 450 followers, and was adding one follower every three seconds.

Her site includes an ALP logo and a smart photograph of her in matching necklace and earrings.

Twitter allows anyone to sign up send out messages of 140 characters or less whenever they like; others sign up and follow the messages.

Ms Gillard may be the talk of Twitter but she has a long way to go before she can match her former boss Kevin Rudd, who has almost one million people following his regular tweets.

Posting under the not-entirely-accurate moniker "KevinRuddPM", Mr Rudd's latest message showed him enjoying a day out with his family on the Sunshine Coast.

"Doing normal things like shopping. Turns out I'm still a lousy shopper," Mr Rudd tweeted on Saturday.

Mr Rudd's recent posts have received wide media coverage as he communicated what he was up to and how he felt after losing the leadership. His wife Therese Rein is also a committed tweeter.

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott is just shy of 10,000 followers on Twitter.

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