"He won't follow anyone for now," says one adviser. "He will be followed."Pope Benedict XVI on Monday announced that he had joined Twitter, part of a campaign by the leader of the Roman Catholic Church to better connect with his 1.2-billion-strong flock. Benedict chose the handle @pontifex — Latin for "pontiff" — and is already being followed by more than 240,000 people. But Benedict isn't exactly returning the love: He is following only seven other Twitter accounts, all of which are foreign-language versions of himself in which he speaks in different tongues. ...

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