Pope Takes First Cautious Step On Twitter — Sends ‘Hello World’ Tweet

Why is this news? In fact, why is the fact someone tweeted for the first time even on HN? It's utterly inconsequential and about as intellectually gratifying as memes on /r/adviceanimals.

Cool, another high profile person has joined the 'looks like a famous person on twitter but is actually a large PR team' club.

What would Jesus do? <a href="https://twitter.com/jesus" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/jesus</a>

This is hilarious for some reason. I mean, the whole @Pontifex thing. God this is so good.

According to the last Dan Brown novel, Twitter is god. Seriously.