(NewsCore) - Pope Benedict XVI sent his first tweet Tuesday, typing it himself on an iPad. The Vatican had confirmed the pope's inaugural tweet, announcing the launch of news.va, a Vatican news and information site. He added, "Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI."
Great, like there aren't enough Christian Zealots on the internet and twitter already, whats one more.
On the bright side I'm fully looking forward to seeing who the Pope follows. What an honor that would be huh? Unless he does the Christian thing and just follows everyone that follows him. I'd totally get it, but it would still be a little disappointing.
Being followed by the Pope should be an exclusive thing, like VIP status with the big guy upstairs. Name dropping that in coversation should be a status symbol. Like right after making a Priest and a Pedophile joke, while everyone is uncomfortably deciding whether or not to laugh or shoot you dirty looks you just drop, "it's cool, the Pope follows me on twitter." Boom, joke lands, everyone laughs, no one is uncomfortable.
PS: Totally not following The Pope until two things happen: 1) Get your own handle. None of this shared crap, you're the fricken Pope. 2) Follow someone, anyone. You have 38k followers. Show some love (I do think its hysterical that Charlie sheen had like 2 million followers over night, The Pope can't even crack 50k in his first 24 hours).
