We have white smoke! Vatican City is currently abuzz with the faithful packing into St. Peter’s Square, all eagerly awaiting the announcement of the new pope. With the major news in the Roman Catholic world, there is also big news on Twitter. Not only has Twitter slowed to a crawl at times due to the massive amount of tweets funneling through servers, the papal Twitter account is back online!

You can follow the next Pope’s tweets (whoever he may be) at @Pontifex.

We will have more on the cardinal’s decision on the next pope and how he plans to use Twitter in the future. First we have to find out who it is! Check back soon.