Prayers fly via Twitter to Old City of Jerusalem - USATODAY.com

JERUSALEM — For centuries, people have written prayers on scraps of paper and stuffed them into the ancient cracks in the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. In recent years they could fax or e-mail their prayers — and now they can tweet them, too.

The Western Wall now has its own address on the social networking service Twitter, allowing believers around the globe to have their prayers placed between its 2,000-year-old stones without leaving their armchairs...