Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Vatican tweets in six languages

The Vatican began tweeting over the weekend with the launch of its own Twitter account, with a feed in six languages.

The English channel is named news_va_en.

The other languages are Italian (news_va_it), Spanish (news_va_es), French (news_va_fr), German (news_va_de) and Portuguese (news_va_pt), Zenit reports.

A link to the English-language version can be found at the bottom of this story.

"Through these Twitter channels, Vatican Radio and the other media sources of the Holy See will diffuse information about the publication of news and multimedia content of special interest for the life of the Church," said the report.

The Vatican also launched a new webpage on which it will offer multimedia information on current topics.

http://twitter.com/news_va_en
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