July 05, 2011: Pope Benedict XVI’s first tweet has catapulted the Vatican’s presence
on the micro-blogging social network, Twitter to new hights, adding some 50,000 followers
to the English-language account, reported the Catholic News Agency.
Thousands
of Twitter users re-tweeted the Pope’s announcement on Wednesday, June 28, that launched
the Vatican News website news.va, and thousands more subscribed to the Vatican’s English
Language twitter account. The English channel follower account stood at over 65,000
as of Friday evening, an increase of 54,000 from the period before the Pope’s message.
The
growth of the Vatican’s English Language twitter channel was massive compared to the
Vatican’s twitter accounts in other languages, the report added.
The Spanish-language
channel has about 11,000 followers, while the Italian language channel sits at about
3,500.