Twitter has changed the world
Don’t believe me?
After rehearsal on Saturday morning I was struggling a little bit with one spot in Vicky Beeching‘s great song, “Yesterday, Today & Forever.” The end of the verse has a little tag that goes -
Always loving, always true/
Always merciful and good, so good
Between those two lines there is two and a half bars of empty space and it was feeling like there needed to be something in there – but I didn’t know what.
So what do I do? Twitter, of course! I decide it would be worth a shot to send Vicky a direct message and ask her if she has a suggestion -
A little over 12 hours later, here comes a very helpful reply from Ms. Beeching -
I don’t know about you, but that simple little exchange blew my mind. Think about this: I have an issue with a song and I am able to get in direct contact with the author of that song to ask how she does it! Within 12 hours I have a direct response from her with a suggestion. As I told someone this morning, that could not have happened even 1 year ago. Twitter has changed the world.
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UPDATE: Hi friends of Vicky – thanks for stopping by! I’m on staff as the worship director at a church near Toronto and have been blogging for about a year and a half. Have a look around and leave a comment if there’s something that catches your eye. Cheers!
Hey Chris!
I linked to your post on my Blog just now!
http://vickybeeching.com/check-out-how-twitter-helped-a-worship-leader/
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.
So, here’s my question as a fellow-tweeter:
Can you direct message someone who is NOT following you?
That’s pretty rocked out. I think I’m one-step closer to being sold on Twitter.
Steve – No – the person you are direct messaging needs to be following you.
Billy – The power of Twitter must be used with wisdom :)
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.
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?).
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. :)
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 a great testimony!
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!
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.