Evangelisations - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:05:28 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Evangelisations - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Twitter dynamos, offering Word of God's love https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/06/02/twitter-dynamos-offering-word-of-gods-love/ Fri, 01 Jun 2012 23:13:04 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=26785 When a Twitter staff member set out to answer that question 10 months ago, he thought the answer would emerge among posts from N.B.A. players, politicians or actors. Instead, he found a mystery: a set of messages that were ricocheting around Twitter, being forwarded and responded to at a rate that was off the charts. Read more

Twitter dynamos, offering Word of God's love... Read more]]> When a Twitter staff member set out to answer that question 10 months ago, he thought the answer would emerge among posts from N.B.A. players, politicians or actors. Instead, he found a mystery: a set of messages that were ricocheting around Twitter, being forwarded and responded to at a rate that was off the charts.

"They were punching way above their weight," said Robin Sloan, who discovered the anomaly but did not recognize the names behind the tweets.

Joyce Meyer, Max Lucado and Andy Stanley were not well known inside Twitter's offices. But they had all built loyal ranks of followers well beyond their social networks — they were evangelical Christian leaders whose inspirational messages of God's love perform about 30 times as well as Twitter messages from pop culture powerhouses like Lady Gaga. Continue reading

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