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December 5, 2011
I admit I am something of a Luddite when it comes to computer technology. I do not have a blackberry or smartphone or any of those other thumb-things as I like to call them. And, I certainly don't tweet. Tweets seem to get people into trouble more than anything else. Besides, our culture does not suffer from too little immediacy.
So, I was a little surprised to read an article over at Vatican Insider about cardinals who tweet. Cardinal Odilo Scherer, the Archbishop of Sao Paulo, Brazil, has 7,566 followers. That seems like a lot to me. Our own Cardinal Sean O'Malley, OFM Cap, has 1993 followers on Twitter.
I suppose the Twitter universe is the new Areopagus.
