Twitter has changed the world

dude, twitter is the biggest Kingdom waster of all time. Billy Chia and I are arguing this on his blog currently. He posted on which I commented (scroll down, I am the first dissenter amidst twitter lovers). http://billychia.com/2008/08/06/meet-your-friends-faster-with-twitter/ He rebutted and then I “shredded” his argument (at least IM[non]HO). http://billychia.com/2008/08/08/the-value-of-narrative-tweets/ You'd better come help him, he is currently getting his rear kicked in defending twitter.

That is seriously cool! I finally jumped into the twitter world a bit ago as well and it really is amazing to feel like a part of the community of worship leaders in the world and not just out here on my own!

That is a great testimony!

And I remember how sad I was when you sent me the message that you were giving up on it after Recreate! Glad you didn't bro--it connects me to my kinfolk in Canada!

That is amazing. Almost as amazing as the fact that Twitter was actually working at the precise moments that both you and Vicky posted your tweets. :)

Gregory - There is definitely a fine balance between Twitter being short updates and becoming a chat room. I wonder if someone's written an unofficial Twitter etiquette (Twitterquette?).

Chris, this is indeed a great example of how Twitter has been of great help to ministry. Thanks for sharing about it. One night several weeks ago, I decided to check Twitter "one last time" before going to bed. Two hours later, I was still awake having a conversation via Twitter with at least two other worship leaders on a specific topic one of them had tweeted about. Had it been during a peak time of the day, we probably would not have had such a long conversation because, well, Twitter isn't meant for that and some might have thought we were rude to use it in that manner. But I went to bed on cloud 9 because of the awesome exchange we had.

Steve - No - the person you are direct messaging needs to be following you. Billy - The power of Twitter must be used with wisdom :)

That's pretty rocked out. I think I'm one-step closer to being sold on Twitter.

So, here's my question as a fellow-tweeter: Can you direct message someone who is NOT following you?

Hey Vicky - that is amazing! I agree - I've often had second (and third and fourth) thoughts about Twitter but this is the second time that it has proved very, very useful.

Hey Chris! I linked to your post on my Blog just now! http://vickybeeching.com/check-out-how-twitter-helped-a-worship-leader/