Pope Francis is a social media fan who already tweets and will likely soon start posting in Instagram, too.
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His Holiness to launch Instagram account
Italian news platform ANSA reports that the Pope will make his debut on IG using that account name Fransiscus
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The pope, who has hailed the ability of Internet to “to build a society which is healthy and open to sharing,” had a private meeting with Instagram founder and CEO, Kevin Systrom last month. He has also had other meeting with other top tech execs like Eric Schmidt and Tim Cook.
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According to Systrom's Instagram account, they talked about the power of images to bring people together across social boundaries, but media reports don't say if they discussed opening a papal Instagram account.
The Vatican currently has a verified Instagram account with around 78,900 followers. If Pope Francis does launch his own account, it may help kill off the many accounts posing as His Holiness on the photo-sharing social media platform.
The pope's Twitter page was launched in 2012 and currently has 9.87 million followers.
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