Pope’s twitter account draws thousands
5 Dec 2012 5:43 AM IST
Pope Benedict XVI already had hundreds of thousands of followers on his new Twitter account on Tuesday-- just a day after it was unveiled and more than a week before any actual tweets appear. The English-language version of the @pontifex handle had more than 365,000 followers - up from 2,400 at the time of the announcement on Monday.
Counting all the eight languages of the accounts on which papally-approved tweets will appear, the number of followers was more than 500,000. The numbers still represent only a tiny fraction of the world's 1.1 billion Catholics who follow the pope offline and are far lower than for celebrity singers Lady Gaga.
Counting all the eight languages of the accounts on which papally-approved tweets will appear, the number of followers was more than 500,000. The numbers still represent only a tiny fraction of the world's 1.1 billion Catholics who follow the pope offline and are far lower than for celebrity singers Lady Gaga.
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