added: it came back up by midnight, mst.
Added: twitter hacked, defaced by ‘iranian cyber army‘ at tech crunch.
and the world is coming to an end. really. of all the social media thingys, twitter is the one that has caught my attention. i did f@ceb00k for awhile, but.. i just didn’t like the cliqueness of the place. it felt.. well, too much like high school. it became this way even more for me when a bunch of people from high school friended me and didn’t talk to me.. it felt like high school all over.. same people knowing me but not really interacting with me. but twitter, well – i can follow who i want too and have conversations, or not. it just fits my personality better.
*and* yes, i have found community. thanks to @breyeschow. he’s a social media nerd, pcusa pastor, and moderator of the current general assembly of the pcusa (i’m not sure how much power that title comes with, but it is an impressive one). he put together lists of pcusa presbys who twitter and we started to follow each other, and then from there i found @jaybakker (son of jim and tammy faye), shane claiborne, etc.. basically a bunch of emergent and outlaw type christians, along with some mainstream pcusa presbys (i delineate pcusa from other denominations of presbyterian in the u.s. because the others seem significantly more conservative). and then there is a whole palestine crowd as well that i follow, and while i feel less of a sense of community with them, i still enjoy their presence in my life and am glad i can stay up to date on the news there along with hearing commentaries from people actually over in and around that important piece of land.
isn’t that interesting? the 2 main groups i follow – christians and palestinians. there’s a draw to that land, yes there is, and the importance of that land in the lives of these faithful christians that i follow on twitter just can’t be captured. and as christians who believe to the core in justice and overcoming systems of oppression what is occurring in that land must stop.
so yeah, twitter is down, the world is coming to an end, and i guess it’s probably good so i go to sleep at a decent hour.
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