‘Jesus was world’s first tweeter’

(It is a great encouragement for those who make use of the Internet facilities in their maximum. Reposted from ‘The Times of India’, Pune edition, 26 September 2013, p. 9).

[Jesus Christ was the world’s first tweeter because his pronouncements were “brief and full of meaning”, Vatican cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi said on Wednesday (25^th September 2013). Christ “used tweets before everyone else, with elementary phrases made up of fewer than 45 characters like ‘Love one another’,” said Ravasi, the Vatican’s equivalent of a culture minister. “A bit like in television today, he delivered a message through a story or a symbol,” Ravasi said at a conference with Italy’s leading newspaper edition. The cardinal emphasized the importance of clergy making full use of modern day computer technology. “If a cleric, a pastor is not interested in communication, they are defying their duty,” he said. The Vatican has stepped up its presence on the Internet in recent years.]