The head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI, is the latest world religious leader to join the micro-blogging site Twitter.

The Pope, who is yet to post a tweet as at the time of this report, joined the social media site on Monday morning and his English language account attracted over 45,000 followers in less than three hours of joining the site.

However, it seems the Catholic pontiff is only interested in himself as he only follows his own account in seven other languages- Arabic (353 followers) Portuguese (2007 followers) German (997 followers), Italian (6384 followers), Spanish (13 820 followers), French (603 followers) and Polish (469 followers).

The Twitter accounts of the Pope are @Pontifex @Pontifex_de @Pontifex_es @Pontifex_pt @Pontifex_ pl @Pontifex_fr @Pontifex_ar @Pontifex_it

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