Facebook now allows you to select which avatars or photos show up on your profiles as your “friends”. This is a useful tool, particularly if you want to drive new traffic to one of your associates. Twitter however does not allow this. Isn’t it about time that they did? Write to them and let them know you’d like this. I did. This is that tweet I wrote:
@Twitter Could you make it so I could select which avatars show up in my Twitter profile? Thanks. I would appreciate that.
Chris Dorr returns today with another guest post.
Much of the most important innovation on the web today occurs within what some call the Golden Triangle.
The three sides of this triangle are social, mobile and real time. Though the poster children for this triangle are Facebook, the iPhone and Twitter, this innovation extends far beyond these three companies.
This triangle is creating a major shift in how people experience the Internet.
Perhaps the greatest contribution the AmerIndie scene has made to film culture has been the demystification of the filmmaking process. It once was a very closed-door operation, and as a result shut out many people from joining by sheer intimidation.
First off, let me just say: WOW! I was told that this was impossible but you are all proving it otherwise. It’s been a short prep with a tremendously ambitious schedule, and we’ve been making the days (54 set ups today!) and everyone has such a great attitude and spirit. I am loving this film, this crew, this town, this total experience. Thank you.
Secondly though, let me tell you that by working on the film SUPER you are participating in only part of the experience. You now have the chance to get inside the minds of the cast, crew, director and producers — thanks to the miraculous and free broadcast platform know as Twitter.Did you know that our star Rainn Wilson is one of the leading Twitter communicators? Over 1.6 Million people receive his daily tweets. Mr. Gunn is no slacker himself in that department with over 20,000 receiving his feeds. And both these guys are really funny.Me, I use twitter primarily to try to figure out where our film business is going and to try to point it in the direction I want. Everyone on it use it to promote and spread the news, music, and information they want. Hey, even some folks I know have found their significant others on it.And know what? I found this project on Twitter when Rainn posted about it. This movie would not have happened because of it.Registering is free. Just go to http://twitter.com/ , select a screen name, and start selecting some people to follow. Or take my advice and write some tweets before you follow them, but really do what you want to do. You can find interesting people to follow by looking at whom your friends follow and clicking on them to follow.But here is where I think it gets really interesting: I have set up a SUPER group where I list the feeds of everyone involved in the making of the movie. I would like to add your Twitter Feed to the group. So if you join, email me and tell me what your Twitter name is and I will add you to the list.You can also find all the other Super folk there to follow.It will give you and the world a new perspective into the film. I am encouraging you to do this, because I have had a lot of fun doing it, and I think we will all learn from doing it. And I think it will be really cool to show the world SUPER from the inside out. But we need your help.I do request your confidence and discretion though. There are some things we may like to not reveal to the general public, like how the story goes or how things look, and we hope you can respect that, and after all you’ve read your contract and know what you can and can’t do any way, right?Anyways, thanks for working with James, Miranda, Lampton and all of us on this film. Together, we can make something really great that we will all be proud of. Let’s spread the word about what we are doing here.THANKS AGAIN!TedAny way check out the feed and you can see what it is like to be on set, sort of…
Mark Wynns hipped me to this campaign via his Tweet. Check this out. They holding the first ever TweetAThon to raise money for CARE and promote the film A POWERFUL NOISE.
You can help fight global poverty on Twitter! Just tweet “#apowerfulnoise” anytime from March 2nd to March 5th, and NCM Fathom will donate $.10 for up to 50,000 Tweets to CARE, an organization working to end global poverty, in honor of the upcoming one-night event featuring the acclaimed documentary A Powerful Noise.
In honor of International Women’s Day on Thursday, March 5th, Fathom Events presents the acclaimed documentary, A Powerful Noise. This exclusive event will be followed by a live panel discussion with top experts and celebrity activists. You can be a part of the discussion by submitting your question for the panel here.
“It seems when you give people easier ways to share information, more good things happen”
I have been playing with my Twitter, not obsessively mind you. I don’t want to go blind or get hair on my palms. Mostly I use it to link to interesting articles that I don’t have much to say on, things I wish others would read too. You know, the stuff I would like to have a conversation about. Follow me and see where it goes…
Jarrod Whaley of Oak Street Films had an excellent — and passionate — response to my query yesterday on how and why filmmakers should use Twitter. I am particularly pleased that Jarrod posted here as it introduced me to his writing. Check out his thoughtful and well-articulated blog.
