I found this article on the BBC. For years thousands of believers have come to place their prayers on handwritten notes between the 2,000-year-old stones of the Western or "Wailing" wall in Jerusalem in hopes that their requests will find a short-cut to God. I went to Jerusalem myself in 1995 and visited the Western Wall. I prayed there and put a written prayer in one of the mortar joints of the wall.
In recent years, people from overseas have been able to email and fax their prayers which were then printed out and taken to the wall. Now an service has started using the social networking service Twitter so prayers, sent as "tweets" can be printed off and posted on the wall to sit alongside the thousands of other notes placed there by visitors.
Since the service began hundreds of people have taken advantage of it. Founder Alon Nil is now looking for sponsorship to pay someone to help maintain the site or a programming service that can do some of the work for him.
What will they think of next?
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