Pope Benedict XVI has sent his first Twitter message under his handle @Pontifex, blessing his new Internet followers.
"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," the pontiff said.
Since the Pope announced earlier this month that he would start tweeting under his official Latin title, more than 690,000 people have registered to follow his main account in English.
He gained nearly a million followers in the eight languages of his account - Arabic, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish in addition to English.
However, the Pope does not plan to follow anyone.
The first tweet was believed to have been sent by the Pope himself, though Church officials said subsequent ones would be sent by someone in the Vatican's secretariat of state after papal approval.
The Pope is shown his first tweet during a Vatican audience In future tweets, the Pope is expected to respond to some of the questions submitted to him in the past days to #askpontifex.
However, some of the questions were humorous, while others were confrontational or dealt with the sex abuse scandal that has rocked the Roman Catholic Church in recent years.
German-born Pope Benedict is an 85-year-old theologian used to writing philosophical dissertations and papal encyclicals.
But under his pontificate, the Vatican has pushed into the social media, using YouTube and Facebook for special events as it tries to reach out to the faithful, especially the young.
While a pope is infallible under Church doctrine, Benedict XVI's tweets are not, Vatican officials said.
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