Religious Use of Twitter

     For centuries, religious people have written short prayers on pieces of paper and stuffed them into the cracks in the Western Wall (the Kotel) in Jerusalem.  As the technology developed, people outside of Israel began to send faxes and e-mails which religious Jews would dutifully carry daily to the Wall.

     Now, Alon Nil, an Israeli economist, has begun such a service based on the social networking service known as Twitter.  The free service is only three weeks old and already receives thousands of prayers a day.  Nil says he is overwhelmed but intends that no prayers will be lost and that every prayer will be placed into the Wall.

                      http://twitter.com/theKotel

                      http://tweetyourprayers.info