Comedians Troll Pope’s New Twitter Handle with Crude @-Messages

Remember when we told you the Pope is getting his own Twitter feed? At the time we gave you a sneak preview.

Well, the Vatican revealed today that His Holiness' handle will be @Pontifex and he'll send his first tweet on December 12 — in Q&A format.

By 11:21 a.m. EST the Pope had 129,000-plus followers. By 11:46 that number was well over 138,000.

And he has getting @-mentioned like a mo-fo.

Some warm welcomes, some lame jokes, and a lot of inappropriate stuff, much of it NSFW.

Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle is among those shouting out to Benedict XVI in crude fashion:

.@pontifex Hi Pope. You know how the clergy are our line of communication with God? When priests shag kids does God feel it? Is he into it?

— Frankie Boyle (@frankieboyle) December 3, 2012

Rob Delaney, another comedian with a huge Twitter audience, chimed in:

.@pontifex My cousin Sean & I touched ween heads behind our grandparents’ barn when I was 7. Am I going to hell? Welcome to Tweeter!

— rob delaney (@robdelaney) December 3, 2012