Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/29/pope_tweet/
History's first papal tweet launches Vatican website
Primo pipio a Benedictus XVI
Posted in Media, 29th June 2011 05:00 GMT
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His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, has tweeted history's first papal tweet.
With the touch of a finger – not, however, the one adorned with the Annulus Piscatoris [1] – the Bishop of Rome tapped an iPad to tweet to the world that the Vatican's online news service, News.va [2], has launched.
Lauded as "A Historic Tweet" by News.va, here is the primo pipio a Benedictus XVI
While it's unclear whether Vicarius Christi will become an avid social networker, should he decide to tweet ex cathedra, he has over one billion potential followers – that's the estimated number of Roman Catholics worldwide.
Rome Reports has provided a video of the historic moment – and it must be noted with sympathy that the Successor of St. Peter, Prince of The Apostles, appears noticeably less spry than even Apple CEO Steve Jobs – though, of course, the Servant of the Servants of God is 28 years that other spiritual leader's senior:
It's an eventful week for Il Papa: on Tuesday, his first tweet; on Wednesday the 60th anniversary of his ordination [3]. Dominus conservet eum. ®