I love twitter. It's awesome. Except when it doesn't work. Which is about once a day. (Thanks for that joke, Bloggess!)
I'm currently following over 40 feeds and have almost 60 folks following mine. (Some of those were spam, so they don't count.)
So, here's what I'm doing. I'm giving you a list of all the folks that I want to give twitter a try. If your name is in this list, I'm asking you to give twitter a 2-week trial. Sign up, use it for two weeks and if it doesn't work, I'll never ask you again.
(This is a big list...I ain't linking anybody...)
1. The Bluebirds. Come on, gang.
2. Everybody that gigs with me.
3. David Runnels, who has an account but isn't using it. Lame.
4. Adrienne Acevedo, because she works for David Runnels. Oh, and she's "cool."
5. Clay Walker, because his would read like a pre-teen girl. ("Come eat lunch with me?" "Where are you? Are you here yet?" "I'm at the movies!")
6. Ross King...who undoubtedly has some giant, well-thought out, socially-conscious, Kingdom loving reason for not twittering. But come on...how cool would it be to follow the twitter feed of a dude who produces records?
7. John Simmons, because he's the king of one-liners. And what's funnier than a running string of one-liners on a website?
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Twitter Nation...
Posted by Todd Wright at 2:00 PM
Labels: friends, twitter, why must i always be a pioneer
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fine...
already I'm not impressed with how the site works. 2 weeks and counting.
you shamed me into getting an account, "it will change your life" you said. Romack might be reason enough to follow on twitter.
Not even a remote chance.
i don't know if i have blah-blah-whatever-you-said reason, but i can tell you that i'm probably not going to be doing it. here's why (and really, todd, you asked for this): i just don't have time for this kind of thing, and honestly, i don't know very many people that do. i'm self-employed. when i have time to be "tittering," i have time to working on stuff that will help pay my family's bills. When i finish all that stuff (rarely), i usually realize that i haven't been giving enough time to my wife and kids and church, etc. When i finish that stuff (VERY rarely) I'd rather be outside or reading a book or something than telling people that i'm brushing my teeth or scrambling eggs.
dude, you blog like 7 times a day (and we all love you for it). obviously you make time for stuff like this, and that's your business. but i just can't look at my life, and the 5-6 jobs that i have, plus my family, and make time for something that feels to me (again, you wanted a reason) a little unnecessary in the general scope of my life/calling. that's not a shot against you. you do what you want. but i don't have the time to mess with something like this. and if i did, i'd devote that time to something that felt really necessary and (i guess you know me pretty well) Kingdom-advancing.
I barely blog at all, and half the time that i do i squeeze it in just to have some creative outlet, or to post stuff that people are asking for (schedule, tour stuff, etc). Adding twitter to that would just make me cazy.
So there you go. everybody beat up on me. but remember that Todd brought it up.
I probably should've just stolen johnny's answer.
A simple "no" would have sufficed.
If I could mentally Twitter then maybe... Dad gum Todd, I have enough usernames and passwords to remember already. I'm getting old man. I need one of those Amazon Brain Teaser things that keeps me sharp and gets those neuron pathways a firing!
i just think it's awesome that i accidentally misspelled "twittering" and now it looks kind of like a dirty word.
And, Todd, you never thought i'd write a "simple no," so don't even pretend.
I thought you did that on purpose, Ross(K.)
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