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07/12/2012 by
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@Pontifex: Pope Gets 1 Million Twitter Followers. In One Week!

This week we wrote about the 85-year old Pope Benedict joining Twitter last Monday via @pontifex. Well, the Pope gained 500.000 followers, in just 3 days.

@Pontifex: Pope Gets 1 Million Twitter Followers. In One Week!

According to prediction tool TwitterCounter, the Pope will have 1.000.000 followers on 13 December 2012. But he will probably hit that number even much sooner.

Cool, if you know that Pope Benedict XVI will launch his first Tweet on 12 December 2012.

In our former story from this week, we already explained the potential of @pontifex. Why? The Pope has 1.2 billion Catholic followers in the real world, so he might just become the true leader on Twitter as well.

But hey, if you want to know more about the papal tweets and how to ask him questions, you should really read our story:
@pontifex: Pope With 1.2 Billion Followers Starts On Twitter.

Here you will get all the insights and more cool Catholic social media projects. This was an update I had to share with you.

What About You?
What do you expect to happen with @pontifex? What will the number of Pope followers on Twitter be at the end of 2013? 10 million, 50 million or many more? We would love to hear your prediction in the comments below.

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About the Author
Igor Beuker was CMO at 3 listed companies, chairmain at the IAB, jury member at Webby, AMMA and Esprix awards, founder of 2 agencies (sold to WPP) and Global Chief Social Officer at Mindshare. Now he is ‘freejack’ consultant and still a sought after keynote speaker.