Pope Gets His Own Personal Twitter Account

I’m curious to see what sort of things Pope Benedict XVI will tweet about.

Pope Benedict will join the army of Twitter users across the world and set up his personal account on the popular social network. He is expected to start using it by the end of the year, Vatican officials have confirmed.

Pope Benedict XVI reportedly won’t be going at full length with his texts, which are reduced to 140 characters on Twitter. His messages will be put in a nut shell, mostly featuring updates on his activities and words of wisdom.

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In the Swim

A Brit kid tweeted an offensive tweet to an Olympian; now arrested for it.  (HT: Brickbats)

A teenager has been arrested by police investigating abuse of Team GB diver Tom Daley on Twitter.

After coming fourth in the men’s synchronised 10m platform diving event on Monday, the 18-year-old from Plymouth received a message telling him he had let down his father, Rob.

Rob Daley died in May 2011 from brain cancer.

A 17-year-old boy was arrested at a guest house in the Weymouth area on suspicion of malicious communications.

Dorset Police said they acted after being contacted by a member of the public at about 22:30 BST on Monday.

A spokesman was unable to confirm whether the arrest was specifically over the tweets to Daley or subsequent Twitter conversations with other users.

Daley responded to the tweet by posting: “After giving it my all…you get idiot’s sending me this…”

The user later posted a tweet apologising for the comment.

Sure, it’s nasty, but does it warrant arrest?  WTF?

Greek Triple Jumper Withdrawn from Olympics for Racist Tweet

A draconian punishment, for an innocuous comment.

“With so many Africans in Greece… the West Nile mosquitoes will at least eat homemade food!!!” she had posted on her Twitter account.

The country’s Olympic Committee said she was being pulled from the team because her comments were against the Olympic spirit.

“She showed no respect for a basic Olympic value and unfortunately she is out,” Greek mission chief Isidoros Kouvelos told SKAI TV. “She made a mistake and in life we pay for our mistakes.”

So, ‘racism’ bad, but fornication good.  This is why I don’t watch or follow or care about the Olympics…

Mario Dumont Announces the Death of Margaret Thatcher on Twitter

A bit prematurely; she ain’t dead yet!

Une information erronée rapportant la mort de Margaret Thatcher, l’ancienne première ministre de la Grande-Bretagne, a été relayée mercredi par une source plutôt surprenante: Mario Dumont.

L’ancien chef de l’Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ) devenu animateur à la télévision a signalé la mort de la «Dame de fer» sur son compte Twitter.

Après le tollé créé dans les médias par son annonce, M. Dumont s’est excusé. Il a affirmé avoir été berné par un faux compte Twitter au nom de la Première Dame française, Carla Bruni.

La façon dont la mort de la politicienne a été annoncée aurait pourtant dû lui mettre la puce à l’oreille, puisque le prénom de Mme Thatcher était écrit «Margareth», une erreur.

Way to go, Super Mario Boy!

Anyway…  It seems the professional feminists found reason to take issue with his announcement, too:

M. Dumont n’a pas seulement été critiqué pour avoir relayé une fausse information, mais aussi pour la façon dont il a décrit Mme Thatcher. L’ancien chef de l’ADQ l’a décrit comme une femme visionnaire et dotée d’un esprit de décision – une «rareté», selon lui. Certaines personnes se sont offusquées de ses commentaires, les interprétant comme dénigrants pour les femmes.

Whine, whine, whine.  The fact is, though he was wrong about her being dead, Prime Minister Thatcher is indeed a ‘rarity’ among women.