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Are you Twittering?
Posted on January 24th, 2008 in Old-General by Fred McKinnon
Hey Everybody -
Not that everyone needs yet another thing to keep up with, but I’ve revived my Twitter account this week. Twitter is a site that allows you to “update what you are doing” so that friends who follow your “tweets” can be all up in your business. For example, if I update my “status”, and you are a “follower”, you can get an IM, a text message, or no notification at all. I’ve been noticing Twitter mentioned over at ProBlogger this week as well.
It’s been fun to receive other’s updates – Alex @ BetterThanBlank put me onto this cool app for the Mac called “Twitteriffic” that works very well.
Twittering doesn’t just have to be about your “status” … yesterday, for example, I updated my status to say “working on songlist for Sunday – any suggestions”. Well, I have my Twitter account setup so that when I “tweet”, it updates on Twitter, notifies anyone who is “following me” (according to their notification preferences) and it also updates the “status” on my “FaceBook” profile. Well, a few minutes later, I had a FaceBook message from a friend in our church who noticed my profile status change on FaceBook and she sent a couple of her favorite songs as suggestions for Sunday’s worship.
How cool is that!?
So, check it out … my ID is “fmckinnon” if you’d like to follow me …
Fred
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Been twittering for months now. Very cool, integrated into facebook as well.
“russhutto” on twitter.
can’t do it… i’d never be able to peel myself away from my keyboard.
Oh Mandy, dont’ worry – you can update your “status” from your cell phone, too. haha! (or from some cool plugins).
addicted as charged
That is so cool, I am mentioned in your blog, I just noticed today! Twitter rocks because I got to hear one of my favorite songs “Sing to the King” today at church! Thanks Fred SO much!!!
hey Tracie,
So cool – thanks for suggesting it! (Tracie is the one I was mentioning in the blog who saw the Twitter update on FaceBook – we had a nice briefing on “Twitter” on the stage after the 11:00 yesterday!
It definitely was a nice briefing Fred!, and in my 5 years of being at the church it was my first time standing up on stage… woo hoo! Not like I did anything but it felt good to be okay with being there in the spotlight, anyhoo thanks again!
Yeah it’s definitely been enjoyable. I like being able to update through Gmail!