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Pope to connect with flock on Twitter

Published: November 11, 2012

Pope Benedict XVI will start tweeting from a personal Twitter account, perhaps before the end of the year, the Vatican's spokesman says in an AP report published by TheSydney Morning Herald.

The 85-year-old Benedict sent his first tweet from a Vatican account last year when he launched the Vatican's news information portal.

The new Twitter account will be his own, though it's doubtful Benedict himself will wrestle down his encyclicals, apostolic exhortations and other papal pronouncements into 140-character bites.

Benedict, who writes longhand and doesn't normally use a computer, will more likely sign off on tweets written in his name.

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