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In the beginning, Twitter created tweets and ... Bible-related Twitter accounts? Yup, and the latest religious handle, @TweetTheBible86, plans to take its sweet time retelling the Christian Bible, tweeting one verse per day for more than eight decades.
Three friends launched the 86-year #TweetTheBible project on Nov. 11 with Genesis 1:1: "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." Every tweet from the account includes a partial verse as well as a shortened link that leads to the rest of the verse and an audio recording of the verse.
Still in its infancy, @TweetTheBible86 has only 96 followers. But with more than 31,000 verses left to tweet, the account has plenty of time to build a larger following.
Similar projects have cropped up in the past. For example, a man in the UK began tweeting chapter summaries of the Bible in August 2010. That account -- @BibleSummary, has since garnered 20,000-plus followers. Twitter also spawned @VersesFromBible, @Daily_Bible and @BiblePromises.
Not entirely sold on following Tweet the Bible? Maybe the project's fancy promo video created by Igniter Media will entice you.
What do you think of religion-propelled Twitter accounts or apps? Will Twitter be around long enough for @TweetTheBible86 to complete its task?