So, Pope Benedict XVI is getting his very own Twitter account. It comes a year and a half after he tweeted for the first time. More:

A Vatican official told CNN the pope will be composing the tweets for the new account himself. For the first tweet from the account, the pope will also press the button to send the tweet himself, but after that others will send the tweets on his behalf.

In June 2011 the pope sent his first tweet from the Twitter account for the Vatican news site, @news_va_en, to launch the new site www.news.va.  He wrote, “Dear friends, I just launched News.va. Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI.”

His first tweet on the new account should be ”Just had an amazing mocha.” He’ll fit right in.