Pope set to send first tweet
- Published: 12 Dec 2012 at 11.46
- Online news: World
Pope Benedict XVI is due to send out his first, much-anticipated Twitter message on Wednesday, with hundreds of thousands of followers already signed up to receive the tweet.
File picture of the official Twitter account of Pope Benedict XVI. The Pope is due to send out his first, much-anticipated Twitter message on Wednesday, with hundreds of thousands of followers already signed up to receive the tweet. Since the pope last week announced he would start tweeting under the name @pontifex, around 625,000 people have registered to follow his main account, in English.
Since the pope last week announced he would start tweeting under the name @pontifex, around 625,000 people have registered to follow his main account, in English. Tens of thousands more are following his Arabic, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish accounts.
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