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Celebrities aren't the only ones who can claim royal status
on Twitter. Though he might not be Kim Kardashian, Pope Benedict
XVI has already collected hundreds of thousands of followers for his
Twitter account, @pontifex.
It's not surprising that holy high rollers are drawn to the medium:
religious leaders on average pull more weight per tweet, with one
retweet for every 500 followers. In comparison, musicians typically get
a retweet for every 30,000. “We see a very high level of engagement
with religious and spiritual content," Twitter spokeswoman Rachael
Horwitz told CNN. "Followers respond to these topics with replies,
retweets, and clicks on links much more often than they do other
subjects."
With that in mind, here are 8 Christian rock stars of Twitter:
Pope Benedict XVI @Pontifex
The Catholic Church leader has just claimed his holy
handle, @pontifex. Regardless of the fact that he has zero
tweets--he'll host his first Q&A on December 12--the Pope
has already garnered almost 400,000 followers. No word
on what his first choice for a Twitter handle was, but the