The Pope Just Sent His First Tweet - And It Was From An iPad

Thanks to a heavenly marketing campaign we’ve known that this was coming for a while, but earlier today His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI dropped his first tweet from the official @Pontifex account, where he name-dropped Twitter and thanked the network for a “generous response”.

Of note: the tweet was sent from an iPad. Isn’t that one of the signs of the apocalypse?

The tweet read as follows:

“Dear friends, I am pleased to get in touch with you through Twitter.

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