No, This Is Not the New Pope's Twitter Account

A council of Catholic cardinals made its much-anticipated choice of a new pope on Wednesday afternoon, but a long-standing parody Twitter account attributed to Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina fooled many into thinking the 266th pontiff was already tweeting

Bergoglio is the Argentine cardinal who will henceforth be known as Pope Francis I. A Wednesday afternoon tweet from the account @JMBergoglio minutes after the reveal read, "Immensely happy to be the new Pope, Francis I." Journalists and others following the selection on Twitter immediately retweeted the message and hailed the new pope's social media savvy.