Pope Francis' nine @pontifex Twitter accounts have more than 30 million followers, a Vatican monitoring site reported Tuesday. Francis' Twitter account goes out in nine languages, and the followers were broken down by language as follows: Spanish - 39.89%, English 31.92%, Italian 12.50%, Portuguese 7.36%, Polish 2.18%, Latin 2%, French 1.94%, German 1.21% and Arabic 1.00%.
The last million followers came on board in 62 days, or roughly 16,000 people every 24 hours.
The latest overall figure is up from 29 million Twitter followers in May, 26 million in January, 20 million in April 2015, and 15 million in August 2014.
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