This is a Guest Post by Vajaah Parker, who’s live-blogging the BibleTech 2010 event!
Greek breathing, Hebrew thinking, Bible software developing, theologically grounded tech geeks and low tech, bible loving enthusiasts descended on San Jose, CA for BibleTech 2010.
Informative sessions abound but Stephen Smith’s, “Tweeting the Bible,” 45 minute visualization of his 10 month (April 2009 – February 2010) research project made me stop tweeting and garner the greatness.
Stephen compiled statistics on the number and nature of tweets containing bible quotes and citations. His brilliance is hard core and he wrote programs to visualize his data in every graph format imaginable including a periodic table portrayal of the frequency of verses tweeted by book, chapter and verse.
Sounds cool, right?
Starting with the basics Stephen covered the three types of Tweets (@, RT & Tweets). He worked his way towards the phenomenon of the Celebrity Pastor and the ways in which their few tweets are exponentially ReTweeted.
Though Stephen had NO idea of the immense popularity of Rev. Run (@revrunwisdom), of Run-DMC, his research concluded that Rev. Run was the most efficient celebrity pastor by tweet to retweet ratio.
Rev Run Wisdom
- 69 Tweets (That site the bible.)
- 31,571 Retweets
- 850,000 Followers
Seriously, that’s tankin tweet sweetness.
Stephen’s other conclusions:
- Top 3 Celebrity Pastors: Rev. Run (@revrunwisdom), John Piper (@jOhnPiper) and Rick Warren (@rickwarren)
- Most Popular Verse Tweeted: Jeremiah 29:11. Followed by (#2 Phillipians 4:13, #3 Romans 8:28, #4 John 3:16)
- YouVersion is the top bible site linked to by day.
- Nothing from Joshua or the minor prophets was cited or quoted.
Catch up on the happenings of BibleTech 2010 via #BibleTech.
Kenny Jahng says
Neat project over at http://www.openbible.info – thanks for sharing!
In a rare explicit act of self-promotion, I’ve recently developed a Tweet-friendly Bible Verse Linking Service at http://wordof.gd — you can confidently create links on the fly to any passage in more than 35 different translations. The service automatically figures out which Bible site to link to without you having to designate the site.
Just add your Bible Verse(s) + Translation Abbreviation after the url: http://WordOf.GD/
examples:
http://WordOf.GD/john3:16-20 <~~~ NIV
http://WordOf.GD/John3.16-20NRSV <~~~~~ NRSV
You'll find Tweet + Email share buttons in the header of any look-up using this Bible Lookup Web App too.
More details: http://godvertiser.com/2009/12/10/stop-searching-the-bible-go-straight-to-the-truth/
Would love to know your comments on ways to improve the service!
Kenny Jahng
http://www.Godvertiser.com
joanna says
I’ve long suspected that Jeremiah 29:11 is the most used out of context verse. Nice to see some proof. :p
Sauder Worship says
Great post, thanks for sharing – amazing how new technology & the oldest text can still work together!