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Twellowship – The Christian Twitter Train

Posted by John Saddington on Feb 6, 2010

Another targeted “more followers on Twitter” scheme for the faithful few.

I wouldn’t put my username and password in those boxes if you paid me:

  1. It doesn’t look “secure” or trustworthy.
  2. That’s not how I roll with Twitter.
  3. The logo is terrible.
  4. It’s not free.
  5. Linked websites are just too classy for me.

Thoughts?

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John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchCrunch.He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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24 Responses to “Twellowship – The Christian Twitter Train”

  1. Mikes Sumondong
    Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 6:12 am

    To be Honest, I’m not sure what this is all about. I clicked the link from your twitter but oh well let me be the coolest first person to leave the comment. hey NICE changes! ilikeit!

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    • John Saddington
      Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 6:14 am

      thanks! we’ve done some significant upgrades!

      Reply
  2. Joanna
    Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 8:07 am

    I get a little disturbed by anyone or any site who attaches the prefix tw- in front of parts of normal words to make new twitter related words. We already have acceptable words in normal english. Twiends and twellopship sound ridiculous.

    And as for that green site you included a pic of, shouldn’t design like that have gone when geocities went out of style? I remember using a background like that when i built my first site about a decade ago.

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    • John Saddington
      Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 9:32 am

      those designs are classic! forever FTW!

      Reply
  3. Jim Gray
    Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 8:10 am

    pppffftttt…..!
    pure cheese…

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  4. Steven Rossi
    Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 9:09 am

    I would be much more tempted to hop aboard the train if the Twellowship site had the same beautiful background of one of the sites that it links to. Also, I’m gonna need a little more Comic Sans.

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    • John Saddington
      Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 9:33 am

      will comic sans ever go out of style? let’s bring it back.

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  5. Ancoti
    Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 10:36 am

    I have looked at it and walked away. Glad you had a similar reaction. I have learned to stay away from these types of deals. The ones I have dabble din never pan out.

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  6. Kyle Reed
    Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 12:44 pm

    I don’t know…yes the disign is awful, yes like you and everyone else here you could not pay me to be apart of this site, but there are people who seem to be apart of the community.

    I think the amazing thing is that even through the awful design, cheesyness, and over the top language people are still meeting and discussing…

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  7. Brian Alexander
    Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 1:53 pm

    That background on that screenshot looks like one of the textures from windows 95 wallpapers.

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  8. Kevin M.
    Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 9:07 pm

    This is just another bad example of Christians trying to jump on the social media bandwagon.

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    • John Saddington
      Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 9:09 pm

      or maybe it’s a “great” example of a bad practice…!

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      • dannyjbixby
        Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 10:56 pm

        Or a bad example of a great practice? :(

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      • Kevin M.
        Monday, February 8, 2010 at 2:07 pm

        LOL! Oops! That was a great example of bad wording! ;)

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  9. dannyjbixby
    Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 10:56 pm

    It screams geocities. I’m for it!

    Needs more animated gifs.

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  10. Andy Darnell
    Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 11:37 pm

    a-freakin’-men

    You and I are completely on the same page on this one. I looked at it because someone tweeted about it. I thought of writing something negative about it, but my wife doesn’t approve of some of my negative posts. :)

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    • John Saddington
      Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 12:10 am

      oh, so i get the flack? puaha. don’t let your wife see what i wrote.

      Reply
  11. David
    Monday, March 1, 2010 at 11:59 pm

    Say what you will about Twellowship, but we have over 1800 members and not one of them has EVER had their account stolen or tampered with by us. Who cares about the logo and site design? It gets the job done, it serves the purpose it is supposed to. And we do have a free membership, the paid ones help us pay the costs of hosting the domain, etc and we give the paid members a featured spot for the time they pay for… But our free members get followers too.

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    • John Saddington
      Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 12:03 am

      wow. not exactly the type of response i was thinking the site owner would provide. thanks… for being awesome?

      Reply