Ellen & Me - We Have Something In Common

Check this out...Ellen & I are following 17 of the same people on Twitter. I thought for sure we wouldn't have anyone in common, but turns out we both like Dave Ramsey, Chick Fil A, & the Drudge Report. How 'bout that?

Where'd I get this info? From Twiangulate. It's a Twitter cross referencing tool that lets you compare your friends & followers with those of other Twitter users.

You can even use it to see connections between two or three other people. This might be useful if you use Twitter for professional learning community purposes. You know a few key players in your particular industry and want to know who they both follow commonly. Chances are, that'd be a good person for you to check out, too.

I Officially Love Twitter

Let me tell you why...

I signed up and started getting tweets & making my own tweets (and getting made fun of by my friends for talking about tweets) thinking it was going to be a less complicated form of Facebook. Turns out, I've gotten so much more out of Twitter than I would have thought.

I just realized that when I came across some guys posting from the C309 Conference. Now, I didn't know what the heck that was until I clicked on the #C309 hashtag (there's a lot to learn, but don't worry). So, I get to the Twitter search for C309 (oh, it's the Creative Church Conference) and everyone is posting little quotes from, I'm assuming, the guy who's speaking. I literally felt like I was right there.

In addition to this type of thing, I've gotten so many great links. I'm primarily following folks in the educational technology & ministry fields, and every hour or so, I check out my tweetdeck (my friends laugh when I talk about that, too) and find some great links, pictures, and words of encouragement.

So, the bottom line is, I'm sticking with it. I'm not sure if it's even been a month yet, but I'm sold. Sign up and get in on the action. Join me here.

One warning. I have some friends (the podcast crew minus me & Ame) who thought it would be funny to create Mark the Youth Guy on Twitter and start following me. Turns out Mark was a real fan of the Leader Lounge. He was a huge fan. In fact, if I had taken the time to look at his Twitter page, I would have seen that that's all he talked about. He loved the Leader Lounge podcast so much, he recommended our podcast to everyone even in seminars he was teaching. Yeah. I got real excited about Mark and the rest of the guys got a real kick out of me getting real excited. We can all have a huge laugh about it on the next podcast. It was actually very funny.