Twitter service gathers the thoughts of almost 100 Church of England clergy

By Martin Beckford
22 Dec 2009

A new service has been developed that gathers the thoughts of the nine bishops, about 75 vicars and one Archbishop who use the popular “micro-blogging” website.

Anyone who follows the “Twurch of England” can read their latest thoughts and conversations, written in short messages of up to 140 characters either on computers or mobile phone.

The most high-profile religious figure to use Twitter is the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, who is the second most senior cleric in the Church of England. Earlier this year he used Twitter to advertise for a new communications director. the rest