Getting Ready for Our First Tweet
Ready, Set, Go
So what should we tweet about? That IS the question.
We noticed that South Dakota Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America began their Advent season by tweeting the first verse of a popular Advent hymn:
Light one candle to watch for Messiah. Let the light banish darkness.
That’s a nice thought. We will retweet it. (More on retweeting later).
We could tweet a Bible verse. We listed a few dozen for our readers in a post a week or so ago.
But we are also remembering the advice from the pros: social media is about connecting with others. If we want followers, our tweets have to appeal to others or people will just gloss over them. So we are going to work on a mix of material to use in our tweets. We won’t avoid the message of the Gospel but we will talk about things that might appeal to an even broader audience. In addition we will write about things happening here in our neighborhood (roughly East Falls, Germantown, Wissahickon, Manayunk and Roxborough and the tail end of City Line Avenue in Philadelphia).
We are going to start with something just for fun. It’s a riddle. We’ll pose the question in the first tweet and an hour or so later, we will tweet the answer.
Remember, we are new at this, too. This is a process of discovery for all of us.
So today’s task won’t take more than 10 minutes and half of that will be first time jitters.
- Retweet the South Dakota Synod’s tweet.
- Tweet our own riddle.
- Tweet the answer to our riddle.