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Leo XIV, the first Pope with a past on social networks

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May 10, 2025
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Habemus Papam. The American cardinal Robert Francis Prevost Martínez He was chosen as Pope number 267 of the Catholic Church. The traditional white smooth Leo XIVthus becoming the first American Pope and, also, the first with a past tweeter.

How Robert Prevost communicated on his social networks

While Francisco I knew how to adapt to current codes and use social networks to connect with his faithful, he did not have his own baggage in the digital world before being appointed potato. This is different in the case of Leo XIVsince the newly appointed pontiff It does have a fingerprint in networks like Robert Prevost.

Prevost He joined Twitter in 2011its username is @drprevot and currently has 378,032 followers and followers. When examining your profile we appreciate that The bulk of its activity is based on retweeting Publications of media or religious institutions.

Also, when Prevost decided to perform own publicationsthey contained Links to news and the text that accompanied them used to be the head of the article in question. His latest post dates back to February 13, 2025, and in it he shares a news of the Jesuit America Magazine, in which the critical position of Pope Francis I is addressed regarding Trump's immigration policy.

This and others of their tweets (and retweets) let us glimpse their Posture near Francisco I.

Another interesting issue of the Robert Prevost profile on Twitter is the fact that He resumed his activity on the social network relatively littleon February 3, 2025, after not having published anything since July 20, 2023.

Before this break, Prevost was quite active on Twittersharing content several times a month. With his return to the platform he did not maintain such a sustained rhythm. Since, although in February he made four publications, he did not tweet until April 15, that his last post (actually retweit).

With regard to its activity on other social networks, We have not found any profile on Instagram or Facebook that belonged to Prevost. If you do a search on these platforms you will find several users with their name and profile photo, but these are or “Fans Accounts”, unofficial news accounts about the new Pope, or directly false accounts.

Leo XIV will inherit the networks of the Holy See

It is expected that, in its new role as the head of the Catholic Church, Leo XIV Take the reins of the official profiles of the Holy See on Twitter. These are several to be able to go more effectively to certain countries and languages ​​(@pontifex_es for Spain, @pontifex_it for Italy, @pontifex_pt for Portugal, @pontifex in English and @pontifex_ln in Latin).

At the moment, these profiles They remain with the username “Apostolica Vacans”which they adopted after the death of Francisco I to reflect the absence of the figure of the Pope. Most likely, in the next few hours, the first official Tweet of Leo XIV is held from these accounts.

In addition to this, we can also imagine that León XIV will be created a account of Instagram like the one Francisco I had, or that he will directly choose to change the name to it. A movement that would make sense, since it would avoid having to build your community on Instagram from zero and would allow you to maintain the good followers of followers and engagement that you already present.

As for the YouTube channel “The Pope's video”most likely to begin to house videos of the requests in the sentences of Leo XIV.

And who knows? Maybe shortly the Holy See even encouraged to open a profile on Tiktok. In this way, Leo XIV would add a new title to his list of milestones, becoming the first Pope Tiktoker.

Photo: Vatican News

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