Pope Francis has over 40
million Twitter followers via the nine @Pontifex accounts in
different languages, the Holy See's Secretariat for
Communication said on Wednesday.
The threshold was crossed two months before the fifth
anniversary of the opening of the papal Twitter account under
Benedict XVI on December 12, 2012.
The pope has gained over nine million of the followers in the
last 12 months.
The @Franciscus Instagram account is also doing well, with
the pope close to crossing the five-million-followers mark.
The Instagram account was opened on March 19, 2015.
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