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What’s Your Magical Retweet Number?

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Mine is 17.

Your magi­cal ret­weet number is the amount of cha­rac­ters you need to leave at the end of your tweet in order to get ret­wee­ted. It will be dif­fe­rent based on your Twit­ter name. Here’s how I came up with the for­mula for the magi­cal ret­weet number:

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Don’t Want Followers on Twitter? Here’s How!


When it comes to Twit­ter, I am fairly libe­ral with who I’ll follow. But there is are a couple things you can do to ensure I won’t follow you. Here are my top no-follow guarantees:

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Why Social Media Matters

I saw this great and ins­pi­ring video (sent to me via twit­ter iro­ni­cally) that spits out a few stats about social media.

Once again I am remin­ded of how power­ful this tool is. And the best part, it’s FREE and avai­la­ble to us all. Not ever­yone can afford a bill­board or maga­zine ad. But anyone can afford to get a Twit­ter account. Or should I say, you can’t afford not to…

If this kind of thing stri­kes your fancy, be sure to join me on Decem­ber 7th as I give a talk for Salem Tribe entit­led “Social Media Mixology”.

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3 Creative Ways Churches Can Use Twitter

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There’s no doubt that social media is here to stay. Many churches have star­ted to use Twit­ter as a part of their ministry tool­box. I have been a big Twit­ter fan since I first signed up in January. It wasn’t long before I star­ted seeing churches using Twit­ter in crea­tive ways. Here are 3 great ways that I have seen churches incor­po­rate Twit­ter into their ministries:

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Get A Life (ONLINE) Part 2: Social Networks

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Hope­fully you went out and got your­self a Gra­va­tar after rea­ding the last post. Now we can move on to Social Net­works. There are lite­rally thou­sands of social net­wor­king ser­vi­ces out there, so this can’t be a full-blown review of all of them — or any for that matter. What this post will do is show you the main types of social net­wor­king sites that are out there, and give some recom­men­da­tions on how to use them.

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