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How one churches uses Twitter

A while back, I recorded this video interview with Jason Powell of Granger Community Church. Rumor has it that if you didn't use Twitter or Facebook, you couldn't get hired there.

Watch the video to see (and hear) how Granger uses Twitter -- what kind of guidelines do they have in place, how they use it to make for effective communications, and staying open to learning from others. 

How does your church use Twitter? Add a comment below.

(tech note: for those of you who are curious and technically inclined, this video interview was recorded on a Windows-powered PC, via a Skype video chat, live streamed via Vidblaster to be recorded by Ustream.tv)

-- DJ CHUANG, Director at Leadership Network

What do you update more - Facebook status or Twitter?

Great post from Jeremy Liew analyzing volume of Facebook status updates versus Twitter tweets.

There are 30 million Facebook users that update their status on a daily basis.  Liew speculates this to be 45-60 million total status updates each day since each user presumably updates more than once.

Twitter has 18-24 million tweets per day, which is 2-3x less than Facebook.  Although Twitter will likely catch up, Liew notes that the Facebook feed has much more than just status updates.  So the Facebook stream will always appear more active.

So what do you update more often to communicate with your church?  (Of course the tech-savvy user updates both simultaneously through a 3rd party app)

I would argue the Facebook stream is much more attractive to a church since it supports multimedia posts.  And some would use that same argument to say Twitter is more powerful - the simplicity of text is what makes Unix "better" than Windows

- Joe Suh