I don’t and I don’t generally follow those who do…opinions…everyone has one and I listen but don’t read about others….I need the face to face and to be able to ask questions.

Now I love our Sunday morning experience and us twitter to point people to the online experience for themselves.

becky’s last blog post..Is. 22-24; Hebrews 12

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I use to twitter, but not anymore. I don’t want someone else’s opinion to infuluence my opinion. In our society, I think most people allow that to happen. Why can’t people be a judge for themselves? Afterall, we are all different.

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Great thoughts.

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Yes, I twitter about most things, unless they are private matters

Here is a positive experience I’ve seen with Twitter & the church…Our family visited several churches in the last couple of months as we prepare to launch New Passion. We went to Destiny Metropolitan Worship Center in Atlanta (#DMWC). I twittered about my visit and within minutes I had 4 or 5 replies by people I did not know, thanking me for coming and hoping we enjoyed our visit and would come back…I gained them as new followers as well. The point is, those inside the church, using Twitter right & positively can have a HUGE positive influence for your church. If I lived in Atlanta and was looking for a church…that would have been a big step towards keeping me!

My thoughts on the negative impact towards the church is that its going to happen anyway. I guess the same goes with Movies, etc. If someone feels the service was bad, slow, etc. They will share that negative thought on Twitter, but as well, on the cell phone, around the dinner table, etc. I think the power of Twitter is the immediate results and impact.

Nick’s last blog post..What Americans Really Believe

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You make an excellent point: Bruno killed Bruno. “If you can’t take the heat, stay out of the kitchen.”

Whether or not a business/church agrees with a consumer’s/member’s opinion, the opinions are most likely still valid and need to be heard/acknowledged.

I’ve noticed a fair amount of Tweets lately mentioning either really good or bad service…same with some products, too. If I have an exceptional experience or a horrid one, I tend to might mention it. Every so often I’ll get a response from others, or even the business themselves, if they’re on Twitter.

Just a warning: If a business does decide to Tweet…they better know what they’re doing

case study: Skittles
http://kl.am/SkittlesUhOh

~Cheryl
@FruitySpirit9

p.s. I think each of the @Crosspoint_TV Twitterers do a stellar job!

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Great post! I love the connections I have made on twitter! On a lighter, more ridiculous note…have you seen this……
http://tinyurl.com/kn3qlk

tracy’s last blog post..Many the Miles

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Have to admit that I wanted to twitter, and I tried to twitter, and I struggled with twitter and now my twitter account sits silent.

No – I don’t twitter about stuff. I am still in the dark ages of texting or calling. And with regards to books and such, word of mouth or my blog are my avenues of review delivery.

I do enjoy watching twitter updates on sidebars of blogs, but I just can’t get into it. I think our town is just too small for twitter to take off in the congregations. I know most churches struggle to get traffic on their websites! And we have 40 memebers on our Facebook group but really don’t utilize it as much as we should. Really – this paragraph is summed up with “When you live in a small town you don’t need twitter – the local socialites take care of spreading the word.”

~Kate

Katy’s last blog post..A family rooted in the corn….

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I use to be on Twitter but decided to delete my account. For me it came to a point where I was too into seeing what other people were doing & thinking about what to tweet that I wasn’t living in the moment. Twitter is an amazing tool…..in the right hands.

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“Twitter might speed up the inevitable process though.” Nice.

Word of mouth has always been the most efficient and effective form of marketing – for better or worse. Hooray for the Twitter megaphone! (And yes, I Twitter-review just about everything.)

Lex’s last blog post..Who are you?

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Pete,

This is a very insightful article and is a great check point for me personally. Thanks for sharing.

-@pursuingyahweh

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I admit, I’ve convinced my husband to go to church before based on Tweets I’ve read from the early service!

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Great post a food for thought. twitter is only a tool. It can be used for good & evil, as can any technology. We learn quickly that through word of mouth or in this case, keystroke, that their is power of life & death over your movie, buisiness, church or whatever. Its an instany hot & cold running source of information providing valuable feed back. What’s missing is tone & inflection. So, twitter on…..with caution.

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I don’t tweet but I came across your tweet about the 2010 services.

How about something on *gossip*?

We left a church we went to for 10 years because of a group of women who spread rumors about us. It was amazing to me the treatment we received from people who did not know us or even tried to find out the truth.

Was this a church or high school all over again?

Sad.

Take care,
Amy

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Must confess…I don’t Twitter. Nor do I Facebook. At this point I don’t even text (although I am getting closer) Call me ancient or out of touch but I have no desire to do so. Sorry if this messes up your “poll.”

bill (cycleguy)’s last blog post..Make Me a Servant

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I don’t mind an occassional status update on Facebook, but Twitter is TMI for me. I love my blog, which I consider more of an electronic journal, especially since no one reads it, but I think Twitter can be a little dangerous.

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Pete,

Though you and Brüno have a similar haircut I think as long as you don’t talk in a bad Austrian accent your church is going to do just fine.

David’s last blog post..Homeless Man: The Restless Heart Of Rich Mullins 5

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I’m on Twitter and I need to learn what you mentioned, being in a discussion rather than tweeting AT people. I hate that. Good reminder, thanks Pete.

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@jennifer, thanks for the first hand report. The reviews seem to be pretty consistent.

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THIS IS A ROCK STAR POST!

1. Content is king.
2. WOW experiences are mandatory.
3. People will talk about you.

Your the new Seth Godin!

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Our church (me) twitters @CalvarySeaside.
I twitter (@gidgey) and I setup another twitter for work (@rigginsconst).

I think it’s super helpful, insightful, great opportunities to network, and personally great for fellowship and prayer.

I found this article from an RT.

Bridget Willard’s last blog post..What Are You Thankful For? A Discussion.

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Great post. As I was reading along, I was thinking almost exactly what you eventually said here:

“Truth be known you have no power over whether people twitter about your church, your book or your company. The only choice you have is whether or not you’ll engage in the conversation with them.”

That is SO true, and that ability to engage in conversation is so valuable. When it comes to churches (and everything else), people will always have opinions, and they will always find a way to share them. At least via Twitter, they are claiming those opinions and opening them up to a response and dialogue.

Kristin T. (@kt_writes)’s last blog post..The multi-denominational path

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Twitter (and social media in general) requires complete transparency. Something I think the US church could use a lot more of.

So I say, bring it on!

Becky’s last blog post..The Next Chapter

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I hadn’t even heard of Bruno until this post. Then I went to see what was playing at our local theatre. Well, I saw the poster for it & put it together with all the lame photos of the actor in it I’ve been seeing online. No wonder it failed.

I once tweeted that I was going to another boring church meeting (4th one in a week). They where sharing the exact same stuff with different people and it was extremely boring to me. My Pastor stumbled across that tweet and I got talking to for that (and a couple things I had posted on my blog). I realized how that could have been seen to others that church service was boring. I love my church and it’s not boring at all. Just the meetings are at times. I’m now more careful what I tweet and post on my blog.

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Wow, i so agree with Becky. Transparency is what heals, and Twitter kind of allows a “non-ambiguous way to be that way. I just looked over my tweets and thought, “dang, i hope people don’t think im a negative person” But now that some things have been taken off of our shoulders my tweets are more goofy, giddy and positive. So the new question now is, “is your tweet half full or half empty?” :0

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I most certainly twitter about my church experiences. I am blessed to be living in Atlanta right now and am a regular attender of Buckhead Church. I love passing along what I learned to my friends via twitter…and learning from them as well.

I also enjoy being able to pass along other sermons. I listen to Crosspoint online each week, and am using my daily drives to get caught up on some of the back messages. I have tweeted about some of those truths as well and have found it to be a great way to introduce more great speakers and teachings to friends.

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Nice points. It is indeed very important to know the pros and cons of everything. Thanks for the post!

Christian Leadership’s last blog post..Who Are You Serving?

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I’m asking God for clarity on how to express what I feel in my spirit about the massive impact communication through technology is having on our ability to connect on a personal level. I see the benefits and they are certainly measurably positive. Sadly, I’ve seen a couple of deceptions that occured and they are profoundly destructive. Maybe we need to teach/model that human contact, face to face verbal exchange, must happen before we act/react to tech communication…. I still don’t think I’m expressing what’s in my spirit so I’m going to keep working on it.

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I use twitter mostly for my blogs, but I do tweet about what I read, watch etc. Its true what you wrote…if you have a large following, you have a large influence (good or bad)

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Ok.. so I twitter. Not a lot but some.

Here are the reasons I twitter.

1. It updates my Facebook status.
2. It gives me a method to remind myself of things that I don’t want to forget.
3. So I can annoy those who follow me.

If you want to be annoyed… I am at tonyyork

Tony York’s last blog post..Two sides to the story

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Well, I do think it is odd to tweet during services, but in reality a lot of times I’m zoned out at 15 minutes thinking about being the greatest softball player of all time or the best motivational speaker every to walk the earth. Pictures of flashbulbs going off all around me as I walk onto the softball field, many slow-mo portrayals of my many, many, amazing diving catches and head…….anyway, I digress, so twitter in church, okay, sure, its better than zoning out…and if the church is willing to read responses and change if it needs, then great, if not, I don’t think it is going to actually cause a church to disband and go down the drain.

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I tweet about everything, the scary part is the risk it runs of turning so quickly to gossip, 140 characters read by one person then retweeted into a different 140 and so on and so forth it turns into the telephone game fast

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Like anything, Twitter can be your friend or enemy. It’s good to get quality feedback, but it can also turn a crowd into a mob. Look up the Mark Zuckerberg, Sarah Lacy interview at the SXSW keynote to see how Twitter got that crowd turned into an angry mob.

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