"The pope is going to tweet! The pope is going to tweet!" For weeks, media and the faithful (to Twitter, Catholicism or both) have been anticipating Pope Benedict's first tweet. Before typing a word, he already had more than a million followers. So crowds tuned into Vatican television watched with bated breath as the pope placed his finger on his tablet and … nothing happened.

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