The official Twitter account of Pope Benedict XVI, @ pontifex, was created in early December, but believers across the world could only today read the first thoughts of the Pope.
Pope Benedict XVI published a short time ago, his first message on Twitter: "Dear friends, I am glad to be connected to you through Twitter. Thank you for your generous response, and I am blessing all of you with all my heart. "
Pope’s account already has hundreds of thousands of followers, Twitter is not completely unfamiliar to the Pontiff, who wrote his first tweet last year when he announced the launch of a Vatican official account news portal.
"Pope's presence on Twitter is a concrete expression of the belief that the Church must be present in the digital world," the Vatican said in a statement.
"The Pope will not walk around with a Blackberry or an iPad in hand and there will not be anyone to put words in his mouth. He'll Tweet whenever he feels like", a Vatican spokesman said.