Sunday, December 9, 2012

The Pope's on Twitter

I’ve mentioned before that social media is literally everywhere, and I recently discovered that everywhere now includes Vatican City. Yes, that’s correct, the pope has a Twitter.


The pope? Really? Now, I’m Catholic and I’ve no qualms with the pope, but what why on earth does His Holiness need a Twitter for?

I checked out his profile and was just as surprised at what I saw then as when I found out he had a Twitter account. After being on Twitter for less than a week @Pontifex has 598,132 followers, is following only seven people and has zero tweets.

After doing a little research I discovered that the pope will only follow himself (the seven followees are the same account is seven different languages), and he will start tweeting on December 12, 2012. Also he will be tweeting mostly on spiritual matters, has if there was any question as to what he would post.

Now, I’m all for the mass spread of social media, but I’m not completely set on the leader of my faith being on Twitter. I’m not exactly sure what the reason was for the pope to enter the Twittersphere, but I’m sure we’ll see how this goes.

This should be interesting,

Jake

No comments:

Post a Comment