How to get a quarter^Whalf of a million Twitter followers without posting anything

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[pseudomonas]

On balance, it's easier to post something.

[gerald_duck]

I'm no expert on Twitter or this whole social media malarkey, but by my limited understanding this can't go well for the Pope? People look for tweets that mention specific users, as well as reading tweets actually by the person, but that mechanism will get completely swamped by anyone with an axe to grind (and there are plenty with axes that are very big and very sharp).

[cartesiandaemon]

Maybe there are people who owe allegiance to CyberPOPE who will filter the feed for him? Assuming it's not an impersonator. I quite like the handle too. But yeah, I can imagine it being a bit of a feeding frenzy.

[naath]

It was on the BBC News; I don't think it's a fake, although they implied that it would be written by the papal staff rather than the Pope Himself (who prefers a pen).

[cartesiandaemon]

Oh, cool. I didn't think to check the mainstream news :) I sort of assume that's the case -- I think most important people or large organisations have someone to handle the twitter (although I understand @sweden is just a random Swedish resident picked anew each week :)).