Pope’s Twitter account finally goes liveDecember 3, 2012 - 16:31 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The Pope’s Twitter account is finally live and will be using the @pontifex handle, The Next Web reports. While the account has yet to broadcast its first Papal tweet, from the accounts that it’s following, there will be an additional six language-specific accounts for the Pope, for German, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Italian and Arabic. It has been known for a while that the Pope would officially be coming to Twitter at some point this year, but there has been some debate around what handle would be used, for example this one, but it seems the mystery around the account identity has now been solved. The Vatican isn’t a stranger to the microblogging network, since it has a range of Twitter presences — including verified account @news_va_eng — which was established last year when it launched an online news site to keep the world’s billion-plus Catholics up to date online. Pope Benedict is known to write items by hand rather than on computers or other digital devices, so it seems unlikely that he will actually be involved in pushing the button, or even formulating the tweets himself, TNW says. Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. |