Vatican Deletes All Of Pope Benedict's Tweets
from the erasing-history dept
It was just a couple months ago that Pope Benedict began tweeting to great fanfare and attention. He quickly had well over a million followers. Of course, as you may have heard, the Pope decided to become the first Pope in about 600 years to retire. And, now that this has taken effect... the Vatican appears to have deleted every one of his tweets.Update: As a few people have pointed out, the Vatican has set up an archive of his tweets on their own website. Still doesn't explain why they had to erase the originals.
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History erased...
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Standard Operating Procedure
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Archive
1) Where's the Archive of all the tweets that someone always seems to have ?
2) How long tell they go after the Archives saying they also need to be deleted ?
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http://www.news.va/en/twitter_archive
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Does He
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Nothing new here at all.
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Just speculating here but...
Then again, I don't (nor ever plan) to use Twitter. Never saw the appeal of being able to make a fool out of yourself in front of the entire world in 140 characters or less.
If the new Pope sets up a completely different account, then its likely someone at the Vatican was deliberately tossing tweets in the memory hole. Why they'd do that I have no clue.
The Zen Master says, "We'll see."
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Archived tweets here
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Will just leave this here from an earlier comment. If the Twitter account is meant to be from the pope, tweets not from the pope(current) shouldn't be there. If they link to the archive, then they aren't hiding anything, just preparing it for the next pope, assuming he wants to use it.
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Ok, the simple explanation is that Pope Benedict was not the given name of the man they put under the pope's hat. That twitter account was meant for the man who had the title of "Pope". The Vatican would be very glad to archive all what Pope Benedict said and they always do.
Pope Benedict is a former Pope and is now a slightly higher ranking Bishop that has once been a pope. His rank is now Pope Eminent, his title remains Pope Benedict. The rank is that of a retiree like Former President Bill Clinton.
The reason for the deletion of his Twitter feed is simple, the Vatican is saving it for the next Pope. When he dies or retires, they will archive it and do the same.
Yes, even form a Nazarene background such as mine, it seems weird in deed, but in the words of my fellow Nazarenes..its their way :-)
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Ahhh, so that's why he's on Twitter and not Facebook. Facebook requires you to use your real name.
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It should be noted that I do not take credit for that explanation. My lovely wife was the one who gave me that information.
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It's simple spring cleaning, that's all.
Oh, and to the ACs who keep making pedo priest jabs at Benedict: get some new material. A jab at the RCC over the pedo priest scandals is good every so often, but when you do it, at least try to do it with a little style.
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https://www.facebook.com/TheGoodLordAbove?fref=ts
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Revisionist history. If you don't like what has happened... erase it. (classic 'revisionist history')
The Vatican passes up the opportunities of many things. (please pay me for advice) ahahaha
Hint: celibacy is a valued thing. (where do you spent your life's energy) Don't waste it. And. Don't force it. (are you really paying attention to your own values? What is the definition of Hypocrisy)
A minister has a wife and family but a priest has avowed sex. The requirement that all ministers are priests is... weird (self destructive?) On the level of Pope John Paul II... how do you measure?
At the level of the average reader: where do you spend your energy? What is the different between thinking and thought.
What is awareness anyway?
Disclaimer: am a non practicing Christian.
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