Dalai Lama, Twitter Rock Star: The Virtual Influence of His Holiness

At The Daily Beast, Melinda Liu chronicles the Dali Lama’s relationship with social media. With close to 5 million Twitter followers, the Dali Lama’s tech team tweets “one- or two-sentence spiritual aphorisms” and manages his Facebook page. Liu writes, “The Dalai Lama is quite happy to contemplate the karma of digital technology while leaving geeky details to the younger crowd.”

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