Twitter Ego?
Do we need “X” amount of followers before “Tweeting”? Apparently, well known worship leader Louie Giglio does. As I’m reading blogs and tweets during a quick break today, the band “Fee” tweets this:
I have discovered that @louiegiglio won’t tweet
until he reaches 5000 followers..
he’s almost there..EVERYONE FOLLOW and RT…TODAY
Say What?
Well, looking at @louiegiglio reveals over 5300 followers, (as of this post) and Fee’s post was earlier this morning. I guess I can stop my Twittering. I’m barely under 200 followers. If 5000 is what it takes, than I doubt I’ll ever get there. This begs the question: Has the cult of personality so enveloped the church that we have viral marketing for “celebrity” worship leaders? Maybe this is all a big joke but I truly doubt it. Is 5000 viewers more important than a few hundred?
Something to think about…
For some Twitter is like turning up to high school in a really cool jacket, the ‘look what I have’ effect which somehow confirms how acceptable/cool the tweeter is.
For others they see it as a genuine way of staying in touch with those within there community.
Louie Giglio may well fit the first category which really isn’t surprising as I suspect he is well used to having a mass following wherever he goes. This may be an ego thing for Louie, but to be fair, it is probably also his calling. God calls some to influence many. He walks into Twitter and immediately expects thousands to be around him..
Mark Brown
June 23, 2009 at 11:18 am
It may be more of a promotional thing for Louie. He heads up the Passion events that reaches thousands of college students. He may just be waiting for a big following so that when he does start updating, a big part of those that would be interested in knowing what he has to say will be able to get the information that he wants to tweet about.
Aaron
June 30, 2009 at 1:41 pm
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