Pope Benedict XVI Sends First Tweet

[struggle4progress]

December 12, 2012, 10:44 AM
By Taylor Umlauf

... He already has over 800,000 followers.

His tweet 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.”

He soon after added “How can we celebrate the Year of Faith better in our daily lives?,” which he answered with “By speaking with Jesus in prayer, listening to what he tells you in the Gospel and looking for him in those in need.” ...

http://blogs.wsj.com/photojournal/2012/12/12/pope-benedict-xvi-sends-first-tweet/

[cbayer]

1. Oh blessed day!

[struggle4progress]

2. Sadly, I miss all this stuff cuz I don't twitter

[cbayer]

3. I believe the correct term is "tweet" - you don't tweet.

Neither do I. Hell, I don't even text.

[struggle4progress]

4. He's done a fourth time! Thank goodness for the newspapers keeping us up to speed!

Pope, in fourth-ever tweet: ours is a ‘world without hope’
Posted by Max Fisher on December 12, 2012 at 10:42 am
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/12/12/pope-in-fourth-ever-tweet-ours-is-a-world-without-hope/

On reading the article, I see he twitted or tooted or whatever a fifth time also!

[cbayer]

5. Wow! He's a fast learner.

[struggle4progress]

7. No news coverage so far of his sixth twit

[cbayer]

8. Lol! Now he's collecting twits?

[okasha]

9. I think he's had several in his collection all along.

Only now he has the vocabulary to identify them.

[cbayer]

10. True that.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. And they caught the moment on video, for posterity: