September 19th, 2008
The Twitter Challenge
Posted by Greg Atkinson under Branding/Design, Church 2.0, Churches, Communication, Greg's Favorites, Random Thoughts, Web 2.0I’m curious: If you Twitter, why? I’m more curious: If you don’t Twitter, why not? Would you be up for taking a 30 day challenge and seeing if it grows on you? I’m trying to convert a friend of mine currently, but he’s not biting. I sincerely would like to know your thoughts on the phenomenon of Twitter. If you’re up for the “30 Day Twitter Challenge”, I’ll be your first “tweet” - follow me HERE.
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September 19th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Greg,
I haven’t jumped on the Twitter Train yet for a couple of reasons. 1) I don’t think people would be interested in hearing several details of my day. 2) If I started following people on Twitter, I think it might be too distracting. Keeping me away from my main tasks/goals of the day. I follow you and several others through their blogs. There’s about 80 blogs in total that I have a hard time keeping up with them. I cannot imagine if I actually followed them all through Twitter.
I’m not quite sure if I’m ready for the 30 day challenge.
Mark
September 19th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Aside from the fact that you’re probably weirded out that I”m reading your blog, I will respond to the poll.
I set up a Twitter account while I was pregnant, hoping that we would boldly announce the arrival of our first son. However, even though I would consider myself tech savvy, I can’t quite get the hang of Twitter. My husband, as you well know, isn’t interested in the slightest and I can’t quite point any fingers right now. Otherwise, when you coming to meet this kid? 
September 19th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
I have tried Twitter, but just can’t get into it. I like leaving long, thoughtful blog posts, not short messages. I am not a fan of “I am out eating lunch” type posts… who cares!?! I like long, well thought out, often emotional messages.
But that is just me.
Matthew
September 19th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
I’m giving Twitter a try. I subscribe to a few people’s tweets. I haven’t decided if I like it or not. Sometimes I find their tweets interesting and sometimes I don’t care, for example, what they’re eating for lunch. Some people tweet too much. That’s my opinion.
September 21st, 2008 at 4:51 pm
I personally love twitter and what it offers. I have had more meaningful conversations because of people’s 140 character tweets. It definitely has opened up lines of communication. Being that people put things like, “Rough day at work” or even as simple as “toilet overflowed and flooded master bedroom”, these simple tweets have opened up more conversation. Also, I have been able to network and meet some other great people in ministry. You can follow me at http://www.twitter.com/johnwsnyder
By the way, I love what you are doing with Church 2.0. Can’t wait to read it.
September 25th, 2008 at 12:43 am
I’m with most of the others here Greg … I don’t see why folks would want to follow the minutiae of my days. Aside from which I drive my blog (hopefully) and try to keep it on track but occasional private things sneak in…. so why would I want to duplicate that in a shorthand form.
I’d love to say I’ll take up your 30 day challenge but I think I’d fail after day one!
September 30th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
I love twitter.. and my church leaders are digging it to. We’re actually considering playing this video at our college ministry.. right after the countdown, just to get people focused and settled in a min before worship or special song. this explains twitter and the reasoning behind it in creative way:
http://tinyurl.com/384n2f
October 6th, 2008 at 6:01 am
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October 11th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
I’m trying it. I’m on my 2 day and so far not too bad. I do have a person from the Church that is enjoying it. I get a text from them after every new tweet. I haven’t decided if I like it or not yet. I’ll let you know though.