Pope to open a personal Twitter account

ROME. December 3. KAZINFORM On Monday, Pope Benedict XVI will officially join millions of people around the globe by launching his own Twitter account. The formal announcement is set for a press conference Monday morning at the Vatican with Catholic and Twitter officials.
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A Vatican official told CNN the pope will be composing the tweets for the new account himself. For the first tweet from the account, the pope will also press the button to send the tweet himself, but after that others will send the tweets on his behalf, Kazinform has learnt from CNN.

In June 2011 the pope sent his first tweet from the Twitter account for the Vatican news site, @news_va_en,  to launch the new site www.news.va.  He wrote, "Dear friends, I just launched News.va. Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI."

That signature has led some to guess  that @BenedictusPPXVI will be the account name for the 85-year-old pope's personal account, although @Pope would seem to be fitting as well. (Benedictus PP XVI is the pontiff's signature in Latin, with the "PP" standing for papa, the Latin word for pope.)

 

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