{"id":1514,"date":"2013-04-05T01:40:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T01:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/pope-francis-doubles-followers-on-twitter\/"},"modified":"2013-04-05T01:40:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T01:40:58","slug":"pope-francis-doubles-followers-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/pope-francis-doubles-followers-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis doubles followers on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pope Francis’ online flock has doubled from 2.5 million to 5 million Twitter followers in less than a month — a third of the time it took his predecessor Benedict XVI to build up his following.<\/p>\n
The account @pontifex — the word “pope” in Latin — has tweets in nine languages including English, Spanish, Arabic and Latin. They are snippets of religious instruction rather than insights into the pontiff’s daily life.<\/p>\n
The number on all nine accounts put together went over five million for the first time on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The comments on the tweets left by followers are often irreverent and chatty, with one user asking the pope on Thursday: “How you settling in?”<\/p>\n