Why I Like Twitter

I put on my twitter this afternoon ‘tired from Sharefest’ and put a link to Sharefest website which is our summer of service among 30+ churches in Boulder CO.  So immediately the mayor of Lafayette sends me a direct message thanking me for service and says she read this blog.  She asked “Any success on the soccer issue? (This was concerning a  post I did a few weeks ago about helping enable underprivileged kids to play soccer) and said she liked my ideas. .  She also updated her twitter  thanking people for service today and directed people to my twitter post with the website for Sharefest.

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For those twitter you know that I get a text that she direct messaged me so I immediately direct message her back.  I thank you  and ask who would be good to contact to make the soccer idea happen.  She repsonds and  gives me a key name.  Of course I am gonna call them and say, “the mayor said I should call you…”   Crazy thing is this very morning I was thinking that I should driect message her and send her a link to that very post about the soccer.

Now think about it…   How else could I have an audience that quick and easy with the mayor even of a small town?  The fact that even when I choose to follow her on twitter, she also chooses to follow me is one thing.  That makes sense because I am a citzen ad potential voter.  But the fact that she then read my blog and found a 3-week old post is another.  Then the fact she sends me a personal message first to say ‘thanks and that she likes my idea’ is a complete thing altogether.

I have heard people scoff twitter but I am sold.  And Chris Cameron as my mayor has my vote / support.

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