A Twitter Milestone

May 3, 2011 Bible Reflection Mark McIntyre 3 Comments

I’m relatively new to Twitter, but I did just passed a milestone. This morning I sent out my 1,000th Tweet:

RT @artiedavis: Giving away 10-Copies! of @scottwilliams new book: Diversity here> http://ow.ly/4LYAI. Just RT this, and leave comment.

— Mark McIntyre (@mhmcintyre) May 3, 2011

In the grand scheme of things, this is not a huge accomplishment. But I do believe that social media are going to be around for a while and the Church needs to employ them to communicate the good news of Jesus Christ.

Happy Tweeting! SDG

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