The average person doesn't know what Christians around the country are talking about. The very fact you know sites like ChurchCrunch or ChurchMarketingSucks exist puts you into small demographic of Christians.

The What Up app enables the average person to see what Christians and church leaders are talking about without having an understanding of hashtags. Plus doing a search for "jesus" on Twitter usually returns junky results.

Personally I think it's neat to see what the body of Christ is doing around the country. Hence why I built the app : )

I do appreciate the comments, it enables me make the app more helpful to everyone.

I am of the camp that says, don't reinvent the wheel, use the wheels that someone else invented to do something awesome!

Thanks! This is a good group and we'll probably be able to provide some good feedback. We know it's in stage 1 of many stages… so keep it up!

john

Sounds like the word conversation is causing some confusion. For the What Up app we consider a conversation an exchange of ideas, which in this instance is the posts from different Christians and churches. While the stream starts as a one way conversation, it allows the viewer to contribute by adding their voice via Twitter, Facebook or a blog.

Using the search box you can filter the stream many different ways including searching by keyword or location. I agree the tweets can become overwhelming but you can turn those off by clicking the twitter check box in the filter stream panel on the left hand side.

If you have any suggestions for improvement please let me know. I recommend spending more than five seconds on What Up to get a better feel of how you might want to use it.

Your brother in Christ,

Jeff

PS – Zetify is optimized to give the most people the best experience possible. This app in particular is built for people with monitors greater than 800×600. What Up also discriminates against IE 6 to ensure people with real browsers get a great experience.