OMG. The #Pope is coming to Twitter.
The Vatican announced this afternoon that Pope Benedict XVI is launching a Twitter feed that will be online by the end of the year.
The Pope already sent his first tweet last year — from a Vatican account, announcing the Vatican news portal News.va:
This February 6, 2012, Lent tweet from the @Pope2YouVatican handle is also attributed to Benedict:
BXVI:“Let us be concerned for each other”: the verb which introduces our exhortation tells us to look at others, first of all at Jesus #Lent
— Pope2You (@Pope2YouVatican) February 26, 2012
But now the Pope will have his own personal handle, yet to be announced.
@PopeBenedictXIV is already taken by an apparent impostor. The account is following 56 others, including Sarah Palin-worshipping Hot Dogging It and the Worcester Tea Party:
