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    Watch the Pope Send His First Tweet on an iPad

    Watch the Pope Send His First Tweet on an iPad

    Today was a religious day for social media. Lady Gaga joined Tumblr with a blog called Amen†Fashion. The Pope joined Twitter, sent his first tweet using an iPad, uploaded a video of him tweeting on an iPad, and managed (so far) not to get a single negative YouTube comment about it. Nice try, Lady Gaga. The Pope wins today. Although he may have had some divine help in that first tweet: "Dear Friends, I just launched http://t.co/fVHpS9y Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI"

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    But seriously look at him go on that iPad:

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    According to Jared Keller at The Atlantic, we can expect a lot more new media from the Vatican. Today's flurry of Pope appearances on social media is part of a broader effort to build out an online portal for Vatican happenings:

    The portal, which will aggregate information from the Vatican's various print, online, radio and television media into a single, centralized destination for all things papal, will be the most extensive online venture that the Vatican has undertaken yet, bristling with multimedia goodies and social media integration. According to the Huffington Post's Nicole Winfield, that the portal will be outfitted for live-streaming of papal events, audio feeds from Vatican Radio, photographs from L'Osservatore Romano and printed texts of papal homilies, statements and speeches. Pope Benedict has reportedly been following the development of the portal.

    He's probably following the development on his Twitter iPad app. Which is still so much cooler than Gaga's weird fashion photos on Tumblr.

     
     
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    13 comments

    • Smp  •  Sunnyvale, United States  •  6 mths ago
      This is a test. This is only a test comment.
    • Smp  •  Sunnyvale, United States  •  6 mths ago
      This is a second test. This is only a test comment.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  11 mths ago
      The Pope learned to do this from Anthony Weiner. Therefore, he sent a photo of his crotch to the preferred victims of Catholic clergy - young boys. Does anyone besides me realize that Catholic clergy are disgusting perverts? Why is this criminal gang still in business in 2011?
      • sean 11 mths ago
        no no weiner is a liberial that people like you love so much. don't hate weiner because you are just like him
    • Pat  •  11 mths ago
      Gay porn is about to boom!
    • Ageofreason  •  11 mths ago
      Another 200,000 child rapists on Facebook. Great. Just what we needed.
    • Del  •  11 mths ago
      Watch the pope lift his silken dress in front of the altar boy class. "Hey little boy, want to earn an indulgence?"
      • sean 11 mths ago
        no that's what your mom said to all your friends
    • rudeboyrave  •  11 mths ago
      organized religion is moronic.
      • SHiNOBi_11 11 mths ago
        No religion is IDIOCY.
      • sean 11 mths ago
        ya so is going to collage but stupid people like you go there and then get government jobs.
    • Kevin  •  11 mths ago
      Have you seen his new Facebook page?,...It's got some pics of him partying in college horking the end of a beer bong,...Better watch out for those tags dude,...
      • AdcjioaJ 11 mths ago
        I thought he was more of a red wine guy
      • sean 11 mths ago
        I'm going to guess you are another collage tard.
    • Jake S  •  11 mths ago
      Pope's first tweet: "Was lookn thru my old Htlr Yugn yearbk and saw foto of me in Nazi unifrm. LMAO! I was sknny bac thn."
      • Acherya 11 mths ago
        Accidentally thumbed this down. What I meant was, bravo, my friend, bravo!
      • sean 11 mths ago
        you people are so fearful of what you don't like. Must be Liberials. the group that says all are welcome well only if you think how we do.
    • SBSP  •  11 mths ago
      Popes tweet : Any young boys who would like to become an altar boy call 555-5555
    • SHiNOBi_11  •  11 mths ago
      In The Mighty Name Of Jesus Christ, The King Of Kings And The Lord Of Lords, God Bless Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican Media And The Roman Catholic Church!

      God Be Praised!

      Pope John Paul II, please pray for us all...
    • Wise Old Guy  •  11 mths ago
      Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ ... this sums up the pope's perspective on theology and the church in general - a return to a strongly Christ-centered faith expressed through communal praise (liturgy), personal praise (prayer), and active praise (good works in the form of social action).
    • sean  •  11 mths ago
      all of you people that hate here must be liberials from collage. you all are the real problem in this world. Now why do you call the pope a perv when you all promote behavior like this. you Hollywood loving perverts should all be shot. I can't wait for this country to really break down and people like me can fix it with all our guns. liberials will be killed by the blacks they love so much. F off American people. You destroyed this country liberials. So please bring on the roits so I can get in some target practice
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