Twitter?

[Mark Brown]

Many are questioning the point of Twitter. Perhaps the best question to ask is, how can this assist us in the church? I have just set up a Twitter account called, 'Anglican Church' and invite you if you are on Twitter to make a connection. See: http://twitter.com/AnglicanChurch

And hopefully together we can answer that pertinent question!

God bless,

Rev Mark

[Karen Ward]

We now have a Twitter for Anglimergent. Do join in!
http://anglimergent.ning.com/profiles/blogs/anglitweet-twitter-for

[John Alchin]

Yeah using Twitter for announcements, generally to our younger members, with feed embedded into our web page. Get occasional random followers, usually local Christians from other denoms, etc. Follow @wrachurch

[Malcolm Heath]

It seems to me that twitter can be used in a number of different contexts to greater or lesser effect.
I've seen it used to great effect when there is a hashtag for a particular conference, or even better, a specific session of a conference or other event. People twitter discussions, questions, and general notes as the event goes on. If the event has a large screen available to display that hashtag's feed, it's even more interesting, and a great tool for the presenters - they can get instant feedback as to how their audience is responding, get questions and topics, and so forth.

Now, on the other hand, it's limited by two factors - one, the relative shortness of the messages, which leads to longer content being linked, reducing the immediacy, and secondly, a matter of scale - at a big event, like SxSW interactive, the twitter feed was updating on the order of many times per second, far more than anyone could reasonably expect to follow.

I think that twitter has it's uses - announcing events, publicity, soliciting questions and comments. But past that, it's probably a bit limited to use for much else. Although we shouldn't ever discount the feeling of community it brings to some people - a way of staying connected to others. That's a very good thing, and one that I think could be used to bring emergent communities together more.

[Daniel Simons]

We just twittered the Good Friday Passion --over 500 people followed it, and it was picked up as a news story by a lot of new outlets for its' novelty.

I tried Twitter and left it for its sheer banality, but note that it can be used as a sort of Media Press Release using it's ability to link to other sites. As far as I can see, that's how the best out there are using it.