As I was saying in class to my A2s, excerpts of this were read at briefing on Monday and I was somewhat jarred to hear the noun "tweet" used in such a serious context, because it sounds like such a trivial word. But the connotations twitter has with idle chatter and bird-brains are fast becoming subsumed under its power as a form of mass communication. You can even follow Pope Francis tweeting in latin, if you so choose.
This text is an interesting response to the conservative backlash against Pope Francis for tweeting “Iniquitas radix malorum.” ("Inequality is the root of social ills.")
http://millennialjournal.com/2014/05/01/why-inequality-is-the-root-of-social-evil/
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