You're never too old to tweet.

By : Forum Moderator
Published 13th December 2012 |
Read latest comment - 27th September 2013

Pope Benedict XVI tweets for the first time at end of audience at the Vatican, who by the end of the afternoon had 800,000 followers, used a tablet computer to send his first personal Twitter message.

You can read the post here at the daily record.

800 000 follows? geez, what I wouldn't give for those numbers.

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Dreamraven
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I'd be more impressed if he got a reply back from his boss

Steve Richardson
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Did he type all those tweets? Just over a million followers now. Only 30 millions more to beat bieber. Come on Pope, you can do it

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fourth-monkey

Just over a million followers now...

I hope he got those followers organically, I wouldn't want the pope to get a penalty for gaming the system

Steve Richardson
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I must admit, I hadn't actually looked at his account, so did a quick search, and ended up spending 10 mins just reading some of the responses.

I'd copy a few, but I'd be scared of getting sued... or worse...

I suspect in hindsight this won't be seen as the smartest PR move for the Catholic Church...

Steve Richardson
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I see he only follows 7 others

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Barney

I see he only follows 7 others

lol those are his accounts as well apparently In different languages I think, If I remember correctly.

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Dreamraven

haha I heard about this. Charlie Sheen got more followers in a day than the Pope did... this world is screwed haha

Rockstarr

Ahhh Twitter and it's images. This one shows up if you search for the popes account..

credit Salve Pontifex @Pontifex on Twitpic

Somehow I think traditional institutions like the Government and the Church should give live realtime social media streams a wide berth...

Being accessible to the people may be a marketing companies spin, but continual reputation management and damage limitation comes to mind, as you open yourself up for unmoderated abuse

Steve Richardson
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Its meaningless, the Pope being on twitter and all that. I mean why..?? What's the point..?? thumbsdown

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