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Pope Racks Up 40m Followers On Twitter by lagidigbo: 10:42am On Oct 13, 2017 |
Pope Francis has racked up 40 million followers on Twitter, the Vatican said on Wednesday, underlining the Catholic leader’s status as one of the world’s biggest social media players. The total, spread across accounts in nine languages, leaves Francis neck and neck with his occasional online sparring partner US President Donald Trump (40.3 million followers), but still trailing the likes of Barack Obama (95 million) and Katy Perry (104 million). A net nine million new Twitter users have followed the various @pontifex accounts in the last year, according to the Vatican, which views the micro-blogging site as increasingly important for communicating with the faithful and non-believers. Francis, 80, has become a star of the platform despite the dry, religious nature of most of his tweets. His use of Twitter could also seem at odds with him regularly urging young people to give their smartphones a rest in favour of real-world communication. Read more: http://naijachurchnews.com/pope-racks-40m-followers-twitter/
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