I have a love-hate relationship with Twitter.
Sometimes I'm like - hey, it's cool that EVERYONE can blog now that we've removed the literacy part of it.
Other times I'm like - hey, John's having chicken tonight while 24 is on. That's so delightful.
Maybe it would be better if Ainsley were on it. Then we could whisper sweet nothings to each other in everyone's ears.
In all seriousness, there was a distinct difference between the Innovation3 conference in Dallas and all the past conferences I've attended. Twitter has become more pervasive. And it has lowered the bar of entry for instant publishing. 40 cryptic words is all you need baby!
Twitter is really just mobile IM-ing. Several years ago, I was surprised to learn that two teenagers in my church didn't have e-mail addresses. "We instant message," they said. "Whaa??!!" I said. So I knew IM was coming to the adult world. But I only recently recognized it as Twitter.
I'll have to admit... Twittering has indeed expanded my network, moreso than just blogging. So I'm in.
Good to have you all in!
And it wasn't quite what #i3 was, but the #wibo tag on twitter was BLOWING UP during the conference. Kem Meyer and I alone may have caused a FAIL Whale or two that day. But that was before Twitter got help from Amazon...
Posted by: Clayton Bell | February 03, 2009 at 12:13 PM
Getting ready to make a turkey sandwich, and let the cat out. Isn't that swell? ;-)
Seriously, twitter did serve to connect me to more folks at i3 than would have happened otherwise. Very interesting to track the tweets during the sessions as well -- provided an extra layer of interaction / conversation that encouraged real time participation and follow-up engagement as well...
Posted by: Steve Bradley | February 03, 2009 at 02:20 PM
Only thing that seems weird about Twitter though is that the whole world sees those IMs. I want private tweets and tweets to certain groups in addition to public tweets. Does that exist and I just don't know it?
Posted by: Barton Damer | February 03, 2009 at 02:21 PM
Oh yeah... and every word you now "IM" via Twitter is searchable and immortalized in some database. ;-)
Posted by: Barton Damer | February 03, 2009 at 02:23 PM
at catalyst we tried yammer for a few days (it's a private twitter network) but no one kept at it...
Posted by: Ben Arment | February 03, 2009 at 02:32 PM
#I3 was so awesome because of Twitter...it was like connecting with all your friends.
Posted by: Jason Curlee | February 03, 2009 at 10:06 PM
I'd love to send you a copy of a short 63 page E-book (my fancy way of describing a PDF file :) ) called "The Reason Your Church Must Twitter."
Let me know if you're interested, Ben.
Posted by: Anthony Coppedge | February 06, 2009 at 06:07 PM