Apostolic Twittering....official or not?

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Water Dog wrote:Based on BC's definition of official doctrine, I suppose that depends on whether the apostle tweets while he's on the clock or not, lol. The better question to ask is whether his tweets are going through correlation. I would bet they probably are. Obama doesn't do any of his own tweets, why would Ballard?


There's no way in hell the church would put something out, even on Twitter, without passing it through correlation.
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consiglieri wrote:This has disaster written all over it.


Exactly. I thought the #AskAMormon fiasco would have been lesson enough.
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If they are so stupid as to get on that silliness they deserve what happens.
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Dang, I'm bummed nobody got my joke. It was too subtle, or just not as funny as I thought it was. That'd be par for the course.
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I suppose that depends on whether the apostle tweets while he's on the clock or not


According to the Church's stance on doctrine, it depends on whether or not it's officially published by the Church.
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Sethbag wrote:Dang, I'm bummed nobody got my joke. It was too subtle, or just not as funny as I thought it was. That'd be par for the course.

Don't worry !
The best jokes are the consisting of most truth... They should sound real.

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It seems it would be easy for the enemies of the church to hack the Twitter accounts and alter the words of the prophets in an attempt to confound them, like they did with the 116 pages.
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Sethbag wrote:Dang, I'm bummed nobody got my joke. It was too subtle, or just not as funny as I thought it was. That'd be par for the course.


I got it, and chuckled! I can eyeball 140 characters quickly with fairly impressive accuracy (I manage social media as part of my job responsibilities). I just didn't see it before my post and I had to deliberate on whether to post again.
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DarkHelmet wrote:It seems it would be easy for the enemies of the church to hack the Twitter accounts and alter the words of the prophets in an attempt to confound them, like they did with the 116 pages.

:lol:

Maybe all their passwords are Pioneer47 like the church wifi.
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Man, those apostles are tearing-up Twitter. :rolleyes:

https://Twitter.com/M_RBallard

https://Twitter.com/J_R_Holland

This is just another step Church leaders are taking to use social media to share the gospel and communicate with the world.
http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/m ... es-twitter
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