Vatican
The Vatican is active on Twitter since June 2011 when Vatican radio revamped its news portal adding Twitter to the mix. To accompany the beatification of Pope John Paul II the Vatican set up a special social media project @Pope2YouVatican which has had a tremendous success with over 27,000 followers.
Peer connections (as of 1 July 2012)
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In February 2012 Vatican officials announced that Pope Benedict XVI might take to Twitter himself and speculation is rife which Twitter account the 85-year old pontiff might use. There is an account reserved in his name @BenedictusPPXVI but it is inactive and lacks a profile picture. Despite of this the account has garnered over 2,500 followers.
Tweet analytics (as of 1 July 2012)
| Tweets: | 0 | |
| Following: | 0 | |
| Followers: | 2,585 | |
| Joined Twitter: | 02/21/2012 | |
| Language: | n/a | |
| Status: | Inactive | |
| Tweets/day: | 0 | |
| % Retweets: | 0% | |
| Mentions/Tweet: | 0 | |
| Replies/Tweet: | 0% | |
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| Total of retweets: | 0 | |
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Peer connections (as of 1 July 2012)
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Since 9 June 2011 the Holy See’s website www.vatican.va is available in 8 languages and there are automatic Twitter feeds generated in 6 languages English @vatican_va_en, French @vatican_va_fr, Spanish, @vatican_va_es, German @vatican_va_de, Italian @vatican_va_it and Portuguese @vatican_va_po which have a combined following of over 7,000 followers. None of the accounts are conversational nor do they follow any other Twitter account. For even more news about the activities of the Holy See you might want to follow the Twitter accounts of Vatican Radio (@news_va_en) also available in 6 languages and soon in Arabic.
Tweet analytics (as of 1 July 2012)
| Tweets: | 225 | |
| Following: | 0 | |
| Followers: | 1,673 | |
| Joined Twitter: | 06/09/2011 | |
| Language: | English | |
| Status: | Active | |
| Tweets/day: | 0.58 | |
| % Retweets: | 0% | |
| Mentions/Tweet: | 0 | |
| Replies/Tweet: | 0% | |
| % Tweets retweeted: | 61% | |
| Total of retweets: | 387 | |
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