Comments on: Twitter: The Ultimate Community Organizing Tool?

By: #Hashtags for a Greener World – EcoLocalizer

#Hashtags for a Greener World – EcoLocalizer — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 01:41:23 +0000

[...] twitter can be a tool for organizing social action. Demonstrations and eco-actions often develop their own tags, such as #101010 and #350 for the @350 [...]

By: Lisa @SuperEco

Lisa @SuperEco — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:27:28 +0000

Larger sites often have two different Twitter feeds, one more socially oriented feed and another that’s strictly an RSS feed of their posts. Make sure to look for multiple feeds when you discover a new source you love!

By: Global Patriot

Global Patriot — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:39:37 +0000

Twitter has been invaluable as a tool for quick communication and for connecting with like-minded individuals around the world. While the main twitter stream flows by and is gone, unlike email which sits in your inbox, sending messages using the @username or direct messages provide a way to catch up on only those messages in which you are referenced.

By: John Simonetta

John Simonetta — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:57:28 +0000

We love twitter, only been at it a few months but is easily the best way to keep clients and the community up to date on what we are doing.

http://twitter.com/ProformaGreen

By: Sabina

Sabina — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:15:03 +0000

Great post. I find Twitter useful in many ways. This examples that you have mentioned are really powerful.

I just wanted to add – If you tweet about green living or environment, please add your @name to the wiki list of Green Twitterers
http://www.people4earth.net/myecoguide/index.php/Green_Twitterers

By: Becky Striepe

Becky Striepe — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:39:55 +0000

Oh awesome! I didn’t know about that! We should work on getting Edgewood to follow suit. Hit me up!

By: cody

cody — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:32:21 +0000

East Atlanta does this with their community watch (crime/safety), in combination with a online forum site. It’s quite inspiring how they’ve come together — hopefully my own neighborhood will be able to follow suit.

Atlanta’s 911 system definitely has some problems — at least of few of which are related to a technical glitch involving the fact that part of the City is in a different county and it often routes calls improperly — I really wish they’d get that fixed.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:12:47 +0000

Twitter certainly can be helpful in “getting the word around”. If you have at least some followers in your community, you can very easily alert them to pressing issues e.g. local environmental problems or a news article with relevance to the community. Quite a handy tool, although I would not recommend using only Twitter to organize an online community. As an addition to more “traditional” methods, however, it can be very useful.