The Vatican has enterd into the social networking platform Twitter this weekend by launching a feed in six languages.
Twitter is a free, micro-blogging service that allows users to send or receive brief messages — or “tweets” — through a computer or smartphone.The Twitter Feed has channels in English, Italian, Spanish, French, German and Portuguese, Zenit dot org reported.
Through these Twitter channels, Vatican Radio and the other media sources of the Holy See will send information about news and multimedia coverage of special interest for the life of the Church.
The Vatican also launched a new Web page (www dot resources dot va) on which it will offer multimedia information on current topics.
The launch of the two new Internet resources coincided with Pope Benedict’s Letter to the Catholics of Ireland Regarding the Clerical Sexual Abuse Crisis.
The Vatican has also had its own YouTube channel for more than one year.