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By Rosa Golijan
Pope Benedict XVI, the first pope to join Twitter, will post his last tweet on the social network at 11 a.m. ET, Thursday, right when he's expected to leave the Vatican by helicopter on his last day as pontiff. The papal?Twitter account, @Pontifex, will be then be suspended until?his successor is elected.
Like his prior tweets, the pope's last message is expected to go out in nine languages, across his various Twitter accounts.
Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi told the Associated Press that it will be up to the next leader of the Catholic Church whether or not he will use the @Pontifex Twitter account.?"The Twitter account @pontifex was created for the exclusive use of the pope," Paul Tighe, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, previously stated on the Vatican Radio.
It is unclear what will happen to the?1.5 million followers ammassed by the main @Pontifex Twitter account. (There are an additional 1.2 million followers or so across the non-English versions of the Twitter feed.)
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