{"id":14085,"date":"2016-03-30T11:03:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T11:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=14085"},"modified":"2016-03-30T11:03:32","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T11:03:32","slug":"popes-new-instagram-account-is-an-instant-success-acn-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2016\/03\/30\/popes-new-instagram-account-is-an-instant-success-acn-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope\u2019s new Instagram account is an instant success! &#8211; ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/vatican-e1457952330152.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13703\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-13703\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/vatican-e1457952330152-1024x545.jpg\" alt=\"vatican\" width=\"790\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis\u2019 new \u00a0Instagram account has proved to be an astonishing success, acquiring more than ten thousand followers within 30 minutes of going live and over a million followers within hours. The account launch comes a few weeks after\u00a0 Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom\u00a0 met the Pope at the Vatican. The Instagram account was intentionally established during the Year of\u00a0 Mercy, allowing the Jubilee to enter \u201cinto social media in a very concrete and natural way\u201d .<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cInstagram will help recount the Papacy through images, to enable all those who wish to accompany and know more about Pope Francis\u2019 pontificate to encounter his gestures of tenderness and mercy,\u201d said Mgr. Dario E. Vigan\u00f2, prefect of the Secretariat for Communications.<\/p>\n<p>The official Instagram account has the handle @Franciscus \u2013 which is Latin for Francis \u2013 and will feature photos from L&#8217;Osservatore Romano, as well as short videos. \u201cIn this way we can show those aspects of closeness and inclusion that Pope Francis lives every day,\u201d said Mgr Vigan\u00f2..<\/p>\n<p>Francis\u2019 inaugural post featured a photo of the Pope reverently kneeling in prayer with a simple request for his followers: \u201cPray for me\u201d, translated into nine languages. The Vatican\u2019s social\u00a0 media \u00a0department will run the account on behalf of Pope Francis, who admitted he does not know how to use a computer.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis\u2019 Instagram account is his latest engagement with social media, though he is not the first pope to do so. In December 2012, Benedict XVI inaugurated the @Pontifex Twitter account with the Tweet: &#8220;Dear friends, I am pleased to get in touch with you through Twitter. Thank you for your generous response. I bless all of you from my heart.\u201d The first papal Twitter account was continued by his successor, Pope Francis, who currently tweets in nine languages and has over 26 million followers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis\u2019 new \u00a0Instagram account has proved to be an astonishing success, acquiring more than ten thousand followers within 30 minutes of going live and over a million followers within hours. The account launch comes a few weeks after\u00a0 Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom\u00a0 met the Pope at the Vatican. 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