Pope's Twitter account reaches 17 million followers
(AGI) Vatican City, Dec 12 - Pope Francis has 17 millionfollowers on Twitter. The new figure was reached on Friday, thesecond anniversary of the first tweet from the @pontifexaccount, reported the "il Sismografo" website. It stated: "Itwas Dec. 12, 2012 when Benedict XVI launched a series of tweetsover a few hours, thus starting a communicative experienceabout which there were more than a few worries in manyquarters. The Pope's digital messages came almost 82 yearsafter the first radio message, on Vatican Radio, from Pope PiusXI on Feb. 12, 1931." The hashtag AskPontifex