...also...4. Please don't drop 18 million tweets in 2 minutes. This is the definition of Twitterrhea.
I've found with a lot of social networking tools that they are no longer being used as tools but as a substitute for actual "real life" interaction. I appreciate social commentary, personal updates, interesting links that provide insight into the minds of my friends but it still doesn't beat grabbing a cup of coffee and seeing what is behind those cryptic tweets.
my approach to twitter tends to be, if i find myself doing something that I want to tell people, then I post it...prime example- saturday night when i diminished the top part of my finger to shreds, i took a picture and posted it. I also find myself approaching Twitter to find out what is working in ministries. Some of the people I follow have amazing blogs, yours included Justin, that I can grab info from and following them on Twitter helps me to visit those blogs. I follow a few celebs; Tim Stevens and Dave Ferguson, and Mark Batterson. I enjoy them for the most part, due in part, to their general openness. Dropping the UNFOLLOW hammer would be something new for me, as I am just a week into it. But I think I would drop if like Steve said they drop the 18 million tweets. But for right now, I am only following those that I know and a few "celebs", but too will change
I'm glad I don't twitter because this sounds like a headache, haha.
Sam Mahlstadt
· 9 months ago
I still remain selective because I am in between computers, so my twitting is done exclusively on the phone. I find ur humorous that the term celebrity is used on who 99% of people don't know, just us in ministry. Maybe they are minislebrities...I will be opening up to all those who follow when I can get tweetdeck or peoplebrowsr. Good thoughts.
Enjoying the post and comments, Justin. But it cracks me up that all your replies are in video form. I would rather read than watch/listen. Of course, now I know that you were avoiding your Greek studying to read comments :)
Mike Gorski
· 9 months ago
I generally follow those who follow me. But I also cull who I'm following regularly. So my ratio of following to followers peaks near 1:1 and then drops to 1:2 after a cull. I look through the list of people I'm following and check certain people's tweet streams - if it seems uninteresting I unfollow them.
I find your objection to swearing funny. Mainly because I swear all the time. And having spent part of my career as a writer I know the thesaurus won't help on that front.
I'm open to all viewpoints regardless of the person's poor use of language. There are plenty of worse twitterers out there that don't contain any swearing. Of course, if all you're getting is potty language out of someone you are following - drop them. But I'd also drop a person who only tweets passages from The Bible all the time.
Twitter is all about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts (tweets). I couldn't judge anyone on a single tweet (or even 10 tweets).
Thanks for making me think about this.
Jim
· 9 months ago
#3 is my fave. i've become more selective on my twitter follows.i really do not appreciate some of the marketing morons. now that my follow/following ratio is closer, i'm nearly following 1k.but, i'm weeding out using friendorfollow.com
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I've found with a lot of social networking tools that they are no longer being used as tools but as a substitute for actual "real life" interaction. I appreciate social commentary, personal updates, interesting links that provide insight into the minds of my friends but it still doesn't beat grabbing a cup of coffee and seeing what is behind those cryptic tweets.
I find your objection to swearing funny. Mainly because I swear all the time. And having spent part of my career as a writer I know the thesaurus won't help on that front.
I'm open to all viewpoints regardless of the person's poor use of language. There are plenty of worse twitterers out there that don't contain any swearing. Of course, if all you're getting is potty language out of someone you are following - drop them. But I'd also drop a person who only tweets passages from The Bible all the time.
Twitter is all about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts (tweets). I couldn't judge anyone on a single tweet (or even 10 tweets).
Thanks for making me think about this.