Vatican City, Oct 29, 2013 / 14:36 pm
Pope Francis has passed 10 million followers across nine different language accounts on the popular social media network Twitter, where users publish messages of 140 characters or fewer.
On Oct. 27, Pope Francis tweeted, "Dear Followers I understand there are now over 10 million of you! I thank you with all my heart and ask you to continue praying for me."
As of Oct. 29, the papal Twitter accounts had a total of 10,070,848 followers. The most popular account is the Spanish-language one, with more than 4 million followers. The English-language account comes in second, with 3.1 million followers.
Papal Twitter accounts have also been established in Arabic, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese and most recently, Polish.