BENGALURU: The Twitter bio reads "Timely and detailed traffic updates from India's largest parking lot." It's an account managed by "Silk Board", the infamously log-jammed traffic signal in south Bengaluru. No, the traffic junction hasn't suddenly grown a brain and acquired a patchy data connection ­ it's a parody account started, no doubt, by a Bengalurean with a wicked sense of humour who evidently spends way too much time stuck at the Silk Board signal.

The anonymous Twitter user has anthropo er has anthropomorphized the signal to hilarious effect, with wry, spot-on commentary on life in Bengaluru as well as fake "traffic updates" that shower some well-deserved snark on city traffic. Some of the most popular tweets from the handle @silk_board, are: "Traffic Update: Three IIT-IIM grads sharing an Uber Pool stuck at BTM water tank have started a food-tech company;" "Traffic Update: RMZ Ecospace flyover has received Series A funding from Softbank after registering 20% QoQ user growth;" and "Traffic Update : Slow-moving traffic at Madivala due to bus breakdown at Secunderabad junction."

The account, which was created only on Tuesday, already has more than 2000 followers and some of its tweets have been retweeted more than 600 times.

The account has also created a trend of sorts with more traffic signals joining in on the fun: on Wednesday, three similar-sounding Twitter handles were in action: Tin Factory @tin_factory, Graphite Signal @GraphiteSig nal and #GraphiteSignal. The Graphite factory signal near Whitefield and Tin Factory near KR Puram are notorious for their bumper-to-bumper crawls.

Not only does Mr Silk Board comment on favourite Bengaluru habits ("Guy in 500C Volvo with Akamai ID card has swiftly moved from Level 2 to Level 83 in Candy Crush over the last one hour)" it also provides political commentary from time to time, such as this one, posted on Tuesday: "Intolerance is rising near Indian Oil Petrol pump at 19th Main."

But will the series of sarcastic tweets wake up the authorities to find a solution to ease Bengaluru's traffic, which has been especially bad of late thanks to the rain, or will they shrug it off with `hey, it makes people creative'?

The owner of the Silk Board handle, though preferring to remain anonymous, said he was a business executive with a tech firm.

When TOI reached out to him, he said: "I work on Outer Ring Road in a technology startup and commute through Silk Board every day. Obviously the traffic is pretty insane that route, and gets worse with the weather. And when people are stuck, they just look at their phones. So it kind of made sense [to start this Twitter account]. Also, there are two things that people in Bangalore are obsessed about startup culture and traffic. Unfortunately ORR has both. And it's very interesting that the same people who go out to change the world with tech face mind-numbing traffic every day that they are helpless about. That's essentially it.There's no larger purpose, or social commentary, or anything. I just make jokes. That's all I do. :)"