Ars longa, Twitter brevis? Pope tweets in Latin

It’s only one quote from the Book of Micah, but the Pope’s latest foray into social media has set the Twitterverse, well, a-twitter.

After setting up Twitter accounts in Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Polish, German, French, Spanish and English, Benedict XVI has now chosen to communicate with his followers on Twitter, that most modern of platforms, in that most timeless of mediums: Latin.

“Unitati christifidelium integer studentes quid iubet Dominus?” inquires the Pope, who tweets in Latin under the moniker @Pontifex_ln.http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/faith/article3663600.ece