Dalai Lama on Twitter: OHHDL Is An Impersonator

by Terri Potratz | February 9, 2009 at 10:26 am

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The Dalai Lama's Office supposedly joined Twitter over the weekend, gaining a robust 20,000 followers in only 2 days - but a Twitter employee confirmed this morning that the 'OHHDL' (acronym for Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama) account was created by an impersonator:

@mashable the account was suspended because we were informed by the actual OHHDL in dharamsala, india that @ohhdl is an impersonator.

The account released about 50 updates, or 'tweets,' during its 2 day life span before being deleted by Twitter administrators, most of which were Zen messages.

"Welcome to the official Twitter page of His Holiness the Dalai Lama -- administered by The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama," the first message read.
It was followed several hours later by another message: "Our office is currently overwhelmed by responses from our first day on Twitter. We will make every effort to answer your questions in time."

The background for the page includes a quotation from the Dalai Lama: "Each of us has responsibility for all humankind. It is time for us to think of other people as true brothers and sisters and to be concerned for their welfare, with lessening their suffering."