Twitterpated
This may come as a bit of a surprise to many of you, but I don’t use Twitter. Not only do I not use Twitter, but don’t really ever plan to. I usually try to stay ahead of the curve on technology and this would be a good way to do that, but there are some hang ups I have about it that I think bear mentioning. In case you don’t know Twitter it is “frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?”
First thing, I don’t really think anyone wants to know what I am doing throughout the day, at least enough to check. Don’t get me wrong, I have my share of stalkers and I do enjoy a bit of celebrity since I live in Alabama and used to have a mullet. I just don’t really have any people that want to follow my day like that.
Second, or B as Cathy would say, I don’t really want people to know that I just got finished with a big project, or went to eat lunch, or got a great deal on my car insurance. Also, I’m too lazy to update said activities since I would rather be doing them that talking about them. I know that there are celebrities who have amazing traffic on their Tweets, but that just isn’t me (and I don’t have a PA to update all of that for me).
Having said all of that, I do some great uses for Twitter especially in ministry. Several youth guys are using Twitter to update their groups on specifics for meetings. Imagine doing that to coordinate small groups or many of the other activities that operate on the fly. It could also be useful for project management, though only to update status (I use basecamp). Of course, all of this hinges on your community being open to using Twitter. I don’t have a community that even knows it exists, so it doesn’t prove very useful for me right now.
There is a great little article over at Church Marketing Sucks on this if you want some follow up.
