POPE Benedict XVI has blessed his new internet flock with his first Twitter message to more than a million followers already signed up to receive the holy tweets.
"Dear friends, I am pleased to get in touch with you through Twitter. Thank you for your generous response. I bless all of you from my heart," read the tweet, which the 85-year-old pope sent from a tablet at the end of his weekly general audience on Wednesday.
Since the pope last week announced he would start tweeting under his official Latin title @pontifex, more than 650,000 people have registered to follow his main account in English.
Tens of thousands more are following his Arabic, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish accounts.
The Vatican has invited the pope's new Twitter fans to ask questions the pontiff will try to answer in 140 characters or less.
The first tweet marks a milestone in Vatican communication efforts as it tries to disseminate the Catholic message worldwide, especially to younger people.
Several leading Vatican prelates are already regular tweeters including Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture.
"The pope's presence on Twitter is a concrete expression of his conviction that the Church must be present in the digital arena," the Vatican said earlier.
Benedict wants to "ensure that the good news of Jesus Christ and the teaching of his Church is permeating the forum of exchange and dialogue," it said.
Father Antonio Spadaro, director of the Jesuit journal Civilta Cattolica and one of the Church's Twitter pioneers, said the pope's first tweet was comparable to the first papal radio broadcast by Pius XI on February 12, 1931.
"Social media are real places of emotion where people share their lives, their best and worst desires, their questions and their answers," he said earlier.
Several fake Twitter accounts have already been set up in the pope's name and used to mock the pontiff.
Thousands in the Twitter universe have also posed questions, including a slew of offensive messages about the clerical sex abuse scandals that have rocked the Church over the past decade.
Benedict's 140-character messages will not be written by the pope himself but by Vatican officials who will submit them to him for approval.
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