{"id":4110,"date":"2008-11-07T09:17:58","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T15:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=4110"},"modified":"2013-06-11T07:45:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:45:36","slug":"things-ive-learned-from-twitter-in-the-last-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/things-ive-learned-from-twitter-in-the-last-24-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I&#8217;ve learned from Twitter (in the last 24 hours)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jdblundell\/2982339722\/\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"What we do\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3215\/2982339722_6c7a2b4d55.jpg\" alt=\"What we do\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I was sharing with my life, Laurie, the other night that it&#8217;s amazing how intentional folks are on Twitter (and many on Facebook) about relationships.<\/p>\n<p>I can send a txt message to 30 people and I don&#8217;t <em>typically<\/em> get any responses. I can share one message on Twitter &#8211; and within minutes 10 people from literally around the world let me know they&#8217;re praying for me. (<strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> <em>I don&#8217;t mean that to say that folks who get my txt messages don&#8217;t care &#8212; see comments &#8212; but to hear or see someone actually say it does me good. I guess that&#8217;s why one of my big love languages is verbal\/encouragement \ud83d\ude42 <\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>You really do have to be intentional about building relationships on Twitter. Otherwise it probably seems really pointless and a waste of time.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not into building relationships &#8211; you probably wouldn&#8217;t care that <a href=\"http:\/\/jonnybaker.blogs.com\/\">Jonny Baker<\/a> is planning to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/emergentvillage\/status\/994481580\">live blog from an emerging worship conference<\/a> in Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n<p>Olly says <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/littlelaughalot\/status\/994688325\">girls have skills<\/span> when it comes to putting on make-up in all sorts of situations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trippfuller.com\">Tripp Fuller<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/chadcrawford\">Chad Crawford<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/trippfuller\/status\/994507367\">scored an interview<\/a> with Phyllis Tickle to discuss The Great Emergence. I&#8217;m looking forward to hearing the interview on their Homebrewed Christianity Podcast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markbatterson.com\">Mark Batterson<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkBatterson\/status\/994772812\">working on a new book<\/a> &#8211; and likes to do it early in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Many <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/brucewagner\/status\/994781868\">people<\/a> are <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/stealingsand\/status\/994869568\">still<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/academicdave\/status\/993934974\">super buzzed<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BarackObama\">Obama&#8217;s election<\/a>. However I think things are a little different for my friends over on Facebook. Does that make Facebook more conservative and Twitter more liberal? Or is just my friends?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevindhendricks.com\">Kevin Hendricks<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kevinhendricks\/status\/994341926\">has written over 12,000 words<\/a> in the novel he&#8217;s writing for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\">nanowrimo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Wagner has <a href=\"http:\/\/twitterhelp.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/twitter-via-mobile-web-mtwittercom.html\">created a network<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitysocial.com\">unitysocial.com<\/a>. Looking forward to checking it out in a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theescribitionist.blogspot.com\/\">Sara Jane<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sj_sanders\/status\/994854291\">going to UMHB&#8217;s homecoming<\/a> this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanolog.blogspot.com\">Thomas<\/a> went to see <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/headphonaught\/status\/993901241\">Sigur Ros<\/a> last night while <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/headphonaught\/status\/994010724\">his wife stayed at home<\/a> making Christmas cards and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/headphonaught\/status\/994092005\">many of us on Twitter<\/a> gave him a hard time about it. Today he found out <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/headphonaught\/status\/994893556\">he&#8217;s hosting a quiz<\/a> for his team at work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethingbeautifulpodcast.com\/podcast\/something-beautiful-119-trucker-frank-pt-1\/\">Trucker Frank<\/a> is <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/truckerfrank\/status\/994986228\">loading his truck<\/span> in Shakopee MN, <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/truckerfrank\/status\/994953527\">where it&#8217;s snowing a bit<\/span> and then he&#8217;s heading to KC.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s just the tip of the iceberg! If you&#8217;re still reading this, you should probably be on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\">Twitter<\/a>. If you&#8217;re not &#8211; well then I&#8217;m talking to myself &#8211; and my friends already on Twitter ;-).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sharing with my life, Laurie, the other night that it&#8217;s amazing how intentional folks are on Twitter (and many on Facebook) about relationships. I can send a txt message to 30 people and I don&#8217;t typically get any responses. 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