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Pope Benedict XIV starts Tweeting─── 16:56 Wed, 12 Dec 2012
Rome - Pope Benedict XVI has sent his first much-anticipated Twitter message using his personal account. The Pope was shown pressing a button on an iPad tablet.
The message read: "Dear friends, I am pleased to get in touch with you through Twitter. Thank you for your generous response. I bless all of you from my heart." A spokesperson said earlier the pontiff would "reach out to everyone" with accounts in eight languages.
The Pope's English account already has more than 660 000 followers. So far, the Pope's accounts @pontifex - which mean "pontiff" or "builder of bridges" - are only following each other.
The leader of the world's 1.2 billion or so Roman Catholics is expected to sign off, rather than write, each individual tweet himself.
BBC
The message read: "Dear friends, I am pleased to get in touch with you through Twitter. Thank you for your generous response. I bless all of you from my heart." A spokesperson said earlier the pontiff would "reach out to everyone" with accounts in eight languages.
The Pope's English account already has more than 660 000 followers. So far, the Pope's accounts @pontifex - which mean "pontiff" or "builder of bridges" - are only following each other.
The leader of the world's 1.2 billion or so Roman Catholics is expected to sign off, rather than write, each individual tweet himself.
BBC
