…I almost titled this “Stop Collaborating and Listen”, but I didn’t want to confuse fans googling for Vanilla Ice on the internets.
I’m leary to tell people to “stop” doing things. Hopefully I’ll be able to explain myself well here so you’ll understand why I think Twittering in church is a bad idea.
The other day I read this article from Time talking about pastors actually encouraging their “flocks” to Twitter during weekend worship services. Really?
Here are some reasons why I think it’s a bad idea:
1) The church is not virtual; it is physical.
I do understand that blogging and microblogging are ways to share thoughts, feelings, and reactions that people may not otherwise know. However, can’t you have a real “talking” conversation instead of a virtual “tweeting” one? If I understand the article correctly, the purpose of Twittering during the service is to encourage conversation; I hope the tweets provoke actual conversation instead of only the online conversation.
2) A key part of having your heart stirred in worship is being fully present.
How ADD do we really want to be? The average adult attention span is only about twenty minutes. How can people be paying full attention to the songs, messages, or other elements when they’re responding to things like:
@curtishoneycutt is at @gracecommchurch watching @mattodegaard get his @glockenspiel on.
When you’re at church, be at church.
“Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure”
-Henri Nouwen
Yeah, I know…I just dropped the Nouwen bomb on you. When you’re at church, be fully present at church. God wants to meet with you.
God does not have a Twitter account. Allow yourself to meet with God and get anything else that will distract you out of the way.
3) I don’t want the “greet those around you” time to be usurped by the “tweet those around you” time.
There’s something about sweaty handshakes and scooting up and down pews that is holy. It is a chance to literally connect with those around you, learn their names, and look in the eye those with whom you are worshipping. That’s pretty cool.
I don’t want that to die because we all get iPhones.
4) The iPhone Bible app doesn’t have maps.
Okay. You’ve got an iPhone. Congratulations. We all want to be you. Maybe for the same reason old people really like hymnals, I really like having a physical Bible in front of me…one that has my name embossed on the cover with one of two fonts (there are only two). I can write in the margins, argue with God or myself, or even see where tear drops have landed on certain verses that have meant the most to me. Your iPhone can’t do that.
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The bottom line is, I don’t want to sound like a crotchety old man. I just want people to take full advantage of weekend worship services to springboard them into a closer, more intimate relationship with God.
…your thoughts?
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AMEN, PREACH IT, BROTHER (or should we all start calling you Pepe? inside Grace joke) !!!!! LOVE the Nouwen bomb, by the way. I love to drop those bombs quite often myself. Couldn’t have said any of this better myself. Thank you!!!!!
I sent my first tweet during a service this week- and my last. I tried it, because I had heard the whole “twittering during church” thing is trendy… and it doesn’t work for me. Maybe I just don’t type with my thumbs fast enough or something. I’d rather be engaging in Sojourn than staring at my little screen- which I do enough of already.
I was really considering tweeting “At @gracecommchurch watching @curtishoneycutt get chased by a giant skunk” but, again, I can’t type fast enough.
Thanks for all the skunk jokes.
I wonder what Brad Ruggles thinks because he likes the idea of Twittering during church! As someone who has sat in countless lectures, I can testify that I’m not “fully there” when I’m doing something on my laptop (or phone) in class. However, for me, class and church are two different things.
I think church is a time to put away the distractions and focus solely on God, which is why I try hard to keep my phone away from me. And yes, I will whip out my iPhone Bible app, because I am “being green” and not killing trees. So therefore, I clearly love Jesus and his creation more. Ha ha!
But I am also old school and love the feeling of paper and turning the pages… so it really goes both ways.
Yeah, they had this problem in the early church too. Back when small bands of Christians met in synagogues, young, tech-savvy kids would stand up during the service and shout stuff to their friends outside…
“ROFL this church pwns!”
Come on,
you know you love…
…the Glockenspiel!
bibles on phones? sure. or not. to each his own.
conversation? sure. but you don’t lean over and talk to people. do it after.
i think your best point is that God does not have a twitter account. and it’s a good point. a worship service is corporate in setting, yes- and that is powerful- but i is also a time to focus on worshipping God. Take notes. twitter later. twitter? sure! just not while you’re worshipping God. The only 4 people who need to be involved in that are the Godhead and you.
discussions are great. talk about. tweet.
do it later.
I’ll have to admit I haven’t tweeted on church yet but I’m intrigued by it. Here’s why:
1. I listen better when I “take notes” If I feel like I’m listening for the purpose of sending the message out, I’ll probably listen better.
2. If we are tweeting, our non-church followers might read something that catches their attention and become more open/aware.
3. If there is a screen showing the tweets, chances are I’ll see a lot of people in the room tweeting that I don’t yet know and, despite our hospitality time, haven’t had an opportunity to meet. I can then begin following them and start new relationships that carry on in person. I’ve found FB and twitted to be fantastic tools for growing relationships at our church.
These are just opinions–open to debate. I would also suggest that not ALL services be twittifies ; ) and even twitter services have some silent periods.
Re #1: Um… online conversations are *real* conversations. You can’t really make a distinction. I’ve frequently had more meaningful and enlightening discussions in various online forms than in person. In person emotions and personalities get in the way. Online you’re (more so) facing just the ideas.
Re #2: God odes not have a twitter account.
Oh doesn’t he? — http://twitter.com/Jesus_Christ
Re #3: Isn’t that just restating #1? that greeting someone online doesn’t count as a greeting? I’ll give you that phones allow for anti-social behavior during enforced greeting time… but we didn’t have phones with Twitter growing up and i stills saw plenty of anti-social behavior then. Twitter is just the form, not the problem. If it isn’t Twitter, its checking the bulletin or pretending to lookup a scripture.
I can meet w/God anywhere and it doesn’t have to be in church.
Conversations are conversation. One doesn’t need to physically engage w/ a person to carry on a conversation whether it be about God or anything else.
I do the “howdy-doody” time every Sunday. But when I hear something, be it a prayer request or snippet from a sermon, that I would like to share w/my Twitter friends I tweet it. Thus, begins the conversation outside of church.
Oh, and i didn’t even bother responding to #4. I don’t know about the iPhone app, but the app i use on my G1 lets me leave annotations and take notes, which i can then go home, index, print, search, etc. If you have some brilliant insight and write it down in your dead-tree edition Bible, then want to refer back to it 2 weeks later but cant remember where you wrote it down, what do you do? I search.
So yeah… you pretty much sound like a crotchety old man
Twittering in church seems to be counter to the biblical idea of Sabbath. I love the idea of convergence. I want to have one device for phone, internet, mp3, Facebook, Twitter, Kindle, washing & ironing my clothes, microwaving a ‘hot pocket’ and to entertain my kids with “papijump” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mWsDMuHkMw). The idea of the Sabbath is non-convergence, solely focusing on the blessings of God.
I have been intrigued for some time about the Jewish practice of a “Sabbath box”. Any chance I would get everyone to surrender their tech before entering the worship service?
@robyn: “The only 4 people who need to be involved in that are the Godhead and you.”
…brilliant.
@pwnicholson @introverted one: Good points…I think we’re having a real conversation now. I just want to be careful that we don’t replace our tweeps with our local church body.
@andy mac: I like the idea of your Sabbath Box. Is that something you’ll have your interns install at Bethel?
@Andy Mac.
No, the idea of the Sabbath is to *rest*. Focusing on God is of course good and part of it, but we’re pretty much supposed to do that anyway.
If you’re Twittering for work, then absolutely you shouldn’t.
But if you are Twittering for fellowship (as i believe most probably are) it can be a very rewarding thing.
Have you all seen this video yet about the new iBible?
While we’re on the church topic: There is a Twitter account powered by an app i created that forms communities within Twitter.
This particular account will repeat any prayer request you have back to the world of believers that follow it. Instant prayer army.
http://twitter.com/worldprayr
(For the record, my app powers it, but i don’t run the account and i think his implementation leaves just a bit desired. I do love the idea though)
A good article here… Full of Godly insights.
Talking about God owning one Tweeter account… Hehe, if God suddenly decides to do that, that would be during the second coming of Jesus…
@pwnicholson –
The command to keep the Sabbath is to set it aside, to keep it ‘holy’. The disciple of keeping a Sabbath is to ‘rest’ from our striving, to take the Sabbath out of the week and to focus on and remember the work of the LORD. I agree that we do this every day, but the Sabbath is different in that it is removed.
Exodus 20:8 i “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 j Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, 10 but the k seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the l sojourner who is within your gates. 11 For m in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
Sorry for the REALLY long post. I feel like you are making the point of the godly and good uses of FB, twitter, et al.! I agree, these are things that can keep us connected, but I think that part of our Sabbath worship, is being disconnected to the rest of the week and focused on God.
Thanks for your comments, I would love keep the discussion going.
What is twitter? No, really, I don’t have a twitter (and don’t plan on getting one- sort of like i have never seen “Titanic” just out of pure spite against the norm). I do have to admit that I use my iPhone bible. I love it. I never remembered to bring my bible to church (might have something to do with all the junk I carry around for myself and my 3 kids)… sometimes just getting to church is a feat in and of itself. But, I seem to always have my phone with me. And it is so easy. Sorry you don’t agree, but I think we are close enough to agree to disagree on this point. I love it, you hate it. But at least we both dislike being chased by a skunk. We can still be friends.
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*Chuckle* Some us Catholics on Twitter had this discussion about two weeks ago… on Twitter. While we’re not big on tweeting @ Mass we do wonder if we cannot use *any* electronic device for good @ Mass? What does make paper so much more holy than an iPhone, cell phone or even Kindle? Also, can we use such a device to take notes from a homily? Grappling, grappling… I’m just glad you used a quote from Henri Nouwen. Very fitting. Peace to your day!
http://twitter.com/BarbaraKB
http://twitter.com/CatholicMeme
I totally agree! Christians should not be tweeting during church! You bring up some good and comical reasons for not texting/twittering during Church. Thanks : )
I can see this helping someone express, and ask questions that normally would not. It could also give the speaker a point of view that they never thought of.
LOVE it, Curtis! Very well said, sir! And I couldn’t agree more!
As sad as it is, I think God actually wants us to tell people to stop doing things sometimes! …Someone has to be the voice of reason! Looks like this time you’re it! Go, man, go!
Now, the problem with what you are saying, is you are putting God and “worship” in a box. And then you are putting “twitter” in another box.
First of all, I really don’t like the way you use the word worship. Church isn’t about worship. LIFE is about worship. If you are going to church to “worship” then you have the wrong definition of worship.
Let us take the definition of worship from answers.com – “The reverent love and devotion accorded a deity, an idol, or a sacred object.”. That says nothing about church, or singing. It says love. The “reverent love and devotion” of God. This has to do with everything in your life, not just church.
So, now that we have that out the way…lets get onto the other problems. I am perfectly happy with you not wanting to twitter in church..fairynuff, that is your prerogative. I, however, love to twitter. It is my way of taking notes, and I actually find that I focus more on the sermon when I send a few twitters.
I don’t think you can separate God and technology. I think they can work fantastically in harmony. It just depends on your opinion.
Thirdly…digital bibles. I don’t have an iPhone, but I do have a nokia 5800, and I use my bible on that. In fact, I haven’t used a paper bible in..ooo it’s gotta be 6 years now. I first got a dedicated digital bible, then 2 years later I got my first PDA – the palm T|X, and used a bible on it. And now my new phone.
Granted, there are no margins, but I can write notes on it. I so can argue with God and myself with it, how on earth has that got anything to do with paper/digital? As for the tears…well…I don’t tend to cry so that doesn’t have anything to do with me really.
I don’t see how you can say that twittering or digital bibles are bad. You don’t like them…fairynuff…but I do. So don’t tell me what I am doing is wrong just cause you don’t like it.
@YaManicKill: The point I was trying to make was to make sure we stay connected to God and real people. Technology can be a big distraction to focusing in church. It can also be a really good thing.
I think the key is contextualizing it based on your church congregation. For my church, it wouldn’t work right now. For some churches it can be a really good thing.
I Twitter often. Most of the time I like it.
@curtis
Yeah, ok, I can accept that yes, some people can be distracted by technology. But if technology wasn’t there…something else would be. I twitter cause it helps me…you don’t cause it doesn’t. Thats 2 opinions. I just think the way you wrote the blog really isn’t helpful.
Ooooo…blog is in red…is that not a word? I thought it was in the Oxford English dictionary now…ach well.
wow… it amazes me how quickly we want to jump to criticize other people in how they worship the SAME GOD AS WE DO! This makes me sad, it is less of a discussion and more of the same trying to make people worship God like we do and imposing our very limited understanding of God and the worship of God on other people. If you don’ t like twittering in church, don’t do it… if you like a paper Bible use it. The whole point of corporate worship is to worship God with others, not by ourselves, or we could be doing it online or in front of the tv church. If Twitter makes us able to connect well in a corporate way, use it. If it distracts from your worship, don’t. Don’t we have bigger things to worry about? Do we have to make a judgment on EVERYTHING? I was really hoping this was a joke at first…
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Tweeting, if done in spirit and in truth (chuckle), can be community building. Like someone said, some of the most indepth conversations I have had (or at least initiated) have happened on TW or FB.
Plus, I think the group that thinks worship is simply each person individually (undisturbed by my tweeting) worshipping is missing completely the concept of CORPORATE worship. If you want to have your prayer closet, your drive home in traffic or your walk in the park to have your personal time with God, then don’t tweet then. But when 2 or 3, or 300 hundred gather – it’s a GROUP thing y’all! We’re not a group/community if all we do is look at the backs of each other’s heads.
Tweet, I say!
Both pros and cons have good points here. Yet I would never ever twitter in church. I don’t even use my cell phone in church – it’s on silent until the service ends. Whatever is going on online can wait those two hours for me to be home again. I guess my resistance to things like twittering in church comes down to this: you might be sharing with the outside world, but in my estimate you’re then distracted from the group you’re in (and if you’re twittering within the church, why not save your comments till you can share them over coffee, or twitter later on Sunday afternoon? We Dutch reformed people have perfected the art of the sermon critique, and I would love to do that on twitter. For those of you that twitter during services, would you do the same thing verbally? Ie would you lean over to someone and talk to them during service?) But then again I’m in Holland where people aren’t connected to the internet 24/7. A lot of christians here actually shut off their computers on Sunday to focus on God. (not saying the Internet can’t be a powerful tool to learn about faith. In my experience, conversations I have online are really good for me to establish and articulate what I believe, and be inspired by others. But it still can’t beat real time with God, so until God starts sending me emails, I’m limiting my time online on Sundays).
Not entirely sure what I’m saying here, but I’m posting it anyway. Sorry for the length..
AMEN! Take it from a kid who grew up scribbling in the bulletin to pass the time, any time attention is off the message from the front, retention suffers. When retention suffers, so does renewal. I’m wired up 9-10 hours a day at work, I”m on a lot at home—I don’t need it at church.
This is truly where worlds are colliding–and God should always win (because He does).
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I would say it depends on the kind of church. It would not work in our church – we are standing, sitting, and kneeling too often!
Uh, oh. Better stop using those newfangled projectors because the powerpoint might distract the people from the actual spoken word. And it might be too much work for the projectionist to have to do that on the sabbath instead of paying full attention to the preaching.
Oh – you mean for some people it’s an enhancement? And the others can just ignore it?
Oh. I get it. We try to reach all the people in every way possible, and we try to make sure we enhance the preaching of the word with multiple modalities of teaching, so that the fact that we have diverse learning styles is mitigated.
I see.
Big props for dropping the Nouwen bomb.
I think twitter is a great tool for the extension of church into the week, but it does not lend itself to the communal exchange that gathered worship is meant to be.
Twitter in churches is just a way to try integrate faith into pop-culture and generate a new audience. Hopefully it should crash and burn.
Twitter is in very many ways like a cellphone.
For me it comes down to this:
Why am I there? If I am there to participate in a worship service, then I will not use twitter, a cell phone, a camera, or any other device that takes me from participant to distraction.
If I am using an electronic device to assist me (like, an electronic prayerbook, bible, recorder of the sermon, or whatever else) then I will use it quietly and without being remarkable. Note that videotaping church services is not always allowed, and I get permission if I am going to do that.
Twitter, used in its manifestation as a 140 character refrigerator note to the world, is in some ways bringing that outside world into the sacred, set-apart sanctuary. It’s always a good thing to be aware of what you’re doing.
Other things go in church besides formal worship and there is no reason for most of these things to exclude any electronic tools, and that includes twitter.
Your comments toward iPhone users (Okay. You’ve got an iPhone. Congratulations. We all want to be you.) was brash and offensive.
Nice blog. Good discussion. I pray that those that oppose the authors viewpoint do not become over-sensitive or unnecessarily critical. It is a viewpoint — one in which we are all entitled to have. Hopefully, as Christians we are capable of disagreeing peaceably. For the record, I believe that we should only do with our portable devices that which would be acceptable in other methods. While it is generally accepted to take notes and read our bibles during church (whether electronically or otherwise), in most churches conversating through twitter or otherwise) during praise and worship or the sermon is not generally acceptable. Then of course, there is the matter of personal preference…to each his own so long as it doesn’t unreasonably encroach on the rights of others.
I was going to say something about iPhone users but I’m biting my tongue, in christian love.
What better expression of the ‘great cloud of witnesses’?
Ok, let me preface this comment by saying this: I know Curtis and consider him a good friend. Several people have jumped on his back and taken offense with what I thought was a well-written post. Even if you don’t agree with what he said we can still all be friends (cue the Mr Rodgers theme music)
My take on the subject? I agree with some of your points and disagree slightly on others. First of all, I completely agree that technology can and has impeded our ability to connect with God in worship. Kind of weird coming from a former Church Media Director that oversaw the sound, lights and videos we used during worship. The important thing to note is that technology can either be used to enhance or detract from worship. Twitter is no exception.
For example, I don’t like the idea of Twittering during worship personally because that’s a time for me to connect with God. I’m not saying that I would never do it because there may be a time that God lays something on my heart that I want to share. We need to be very careful about the things we say we will NEVER do.
When it comes to the message time, I like having my iPod touch out so I can look up verses and bookmark them in YouVersion. It’s a handy way of referencing them later. And yes, I have been known to Tweet an especially powerful quote or point in a message. But really, how is that any different from taking notes? And, depending on your learning style, it may actually help you remember the message better. Recent studies have found that lots of things commonly labled as “not paying attention” can actually increase memory retention: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1882127,00.html?imw=Y
That being said, I do think that lots of people abuse their phone or Internet access during church under the guise of “taking notes” or “following along in the Bible” when they are in reality checking the score on the ballgame.
At the end of the day, if you’re so hell-bent on texting your way through a service you may want to consider whether or not you have a technology addiction. Many things are good in moderation but, when taken to excess, can lead to serious problems. Technology is definitely top on the list.
Great post Curtis. Thanks for writing this.
Love this post! Thanks for sharing. Twitter is a great thing but just another internet distraction for us to have. We need to turn these things off when we are in specific places of worship!
…but we can still twitter during meetings right?
If God doesn’t have an account, then how is He following me on Twitter? I guess that just clarifies the whole “omnipresent” thing, eh?
Great post.
This entirely misses the point. This whole article reads like an attempt to regulate the inner disposition of people in the church. I agree the idea of twitter in church is terrible. The problem is that all of these churches create a service which demands no respect or any degree of solemnity. It is no wonder that people twitter when churches set up an informal atmosphere that encourages them to do so.
(iPhone user with Twitter account here)
In response to a commenter who said:
“I don’t think you can separate God and technology. I think they can work fantastically in harmony. It just depends on your opinion.”
Wow. I think you’d better separate God from technology. Technology is the new golden calf…and I say that as someone who uses it. I think the biggest quandry we are wandering into is that these *new* trinkets of the techno world have us pretty focused on ourselves. As humanism runs rampant in our American church, does Twitter drive us to selflessness and humility or does it amplify ourselves & technology…the fastest growing little god? I don’t know that God works “with” technology…He certainly uses it but let’s put this into perspective!
Please bear with me, but I have been contemplating the effects of technology & stress that it imparts upon our minds & bodies. For myself, I see the pressure to Twitter as a means to continue to stare with awe at my own navel instead of marveling at my Creator & Savior.
And Eternity grows even sweeter when I contemplate that we will be freed from all the trappings of the techno world.
Good post.
I don’t Twitter in church for the same reason I don’t text in church or talk on my phone. I think it’s distracting to those around me and it’s disrespectful to the pastor/preacher/communitcator/speaker/worship leader.
First, some of us have BlackBerries, not iPhones.
Quickly reading through this discussion, I seem to catch people emphasizing the two aspects of worship: vertical to God, horizontal to others. Both have a place and time. Both are required.
The idea someone had of spreading a prayer request to an even-wider community of believers removes the walls we have in the horizontal reach to others. This gives the idea of the Community of Saints throughout the world an actual realization using virtual means.
Meanwhile, I would have trouble using Twitter and singing a hymn that was in praise of God. Not that I can’t express my praise of God using 140 characters, but singing and typing are separate activities.
I’m still waiting for someone to use their cellphone to take a video of the choir and uploading it during worship where I am. On YouTube, I’ve already seen such videos. Just what we consider normal 20 years from now probably hasn’t been invented yet.
I think you missed the point….
I originally didn’t realise that people were talking about twittering during singing. I certainly couldn’t do that, and don’t see the point in it. I would twitter during a service, as it is, essentially, my way of taking notes. But yeah, I wouldn’t do it during singing.
Look at you breaking the 50 comment mark you super-blogger you! I’m going to Tweet about this next Sunday at Church.
… kinda silly. It bothers me that this would even be an issue to blog about. Just chill. The church doesn’t need any more rules or “things you shouldn’t do”. The end.
I agree with you Betsy. Churches loose the potential of effecting new people when they start to tell them how they should worship. Why don’t we leave how people act in church up to them and God, just like we leave how much they tweet at the dinner table with their family up to them and God as well. If we keep trying to teach people how to act in their one hour of God time a week, we teach them that this is the one hour where they have to mask what everything else normally looks like.
If someone wants to sit instead of stand in worship, do I get a say? If someone wants to dance in the isles, do I get to tell them how wrong they are? What about people who constantly whisper to their neighbor about relevant points in the sermon, etc. Are they sinning? Lastly, If someone has a billion twitter followers and want’s to share something thats on their mind during church, is it me who gets to tell them to stop, or should I stop throwing the first stones?
Thanks a lot!! This is great. Thanks for sharing.
[...] Four reasons to stop twittering in church. Join the discussion. I don’t twitter during church, so I’m just observing this one for now. But dude says: (1) The church is not virtual, it’s physical (ahem, paging TallSkinnyKiwi); (2) A key part of having your heart stirred in worship is being fully present. (3) Doesn’t want the “greet those around you time” to be usurped by a “tweet those around you” time. (4) The iPhone Bible app doesn’t have maps. His best point is #2. [...]
I still can not believe that people in some countries do that in church. I am an atheist but now, after reading some of these comments I think I respect church more than some so called true believers.
Wow! Want an interesting post and thought provoking comments. I liked the “vertical/horizontal” comment and realized what a difference there is between some church services and the mass. It seems to me to fully participate and to be part of the mass you shouldn’t have your head down sending Tweets to the guy a few pews back. It’s a time to come together as the Body of Christ and to worship God.
To the person who said you should be worshipping outside of church or something to that effect–you are correct. You should make every aspect of your life a way to glorify God but for that hour or whatever it is a time to be fully attuned to God and not distracted by incoming Tweets.
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“God does not have a Twitter account”
God doesn’t have a church building either.
But God does have a Twitter account.
(http://twitter.com/god)
Ooo, so he does, Laura. Thanks for the heads-up. I’m following him now! Should save a lot of hassle. Instead of having to work out what he meant through a book that was written hundreds of years ago, I can just direct message him
hi, you may wish to know that parts of your article were published in the november issue of our local conference newsletter with or without your approval/knowledge, and definitely without acknowledgement.
http://www.methodistmessage.com/nov2009/twitter.html
unless of course you read the november issue in may when you wrote this =p
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