Connie Reece

Writer. Speaker. Christian. Conservative. Pro-life. TEXAN! UT grad & Longhorn football fan. Tweeting since Jan. 2007.

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Proud of you, Tucker!

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Congratulations to Tucker George on being the recipient of the Matthew Vandegrift Second to None award for lacrosse!! Tucker embodies all that Matthew Vandegrift and our high school stands for.

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@Mosqvich @susanreynolds Early this morning, Dan. Her cancer had returned, this time stomach cancer. I had known she was fighting cancer again but not that she had been in hospice care. Her husband, Bill, posted on her account yesterday.

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If you had a “peavatar” for #FrozenPeaFriday back in 2007, please change your profile photo in honor of the passing of @susanreynolds. A true social media pioneer.

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Reminder: Friday launch of FrozenPeaFund to support cancer research. Upload your pea-vatar to http://www.flickr.com/groups/frozenpeafriday/

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@ikepigott @AdamSinger @chrisheuer Twitter did not play nice with 3rd party apps in those early years. And most of us early adopters used 3rd party apps because the Twitter interface was so clunky. Can’t speak to any current issues because I rarely use Twitter anymore.

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@LucretiaPruitt @ScottMonty @shelisrael Aha! I remembered correctly that it was @ScottMonty who coined the word tweetup. I think that was even b4 hashtags came into use.

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@LucretiaPruitt @cheapsuits @shelisrael @K82 @karlaarcher @jowyang Very helpful. Finally met @jowyang at SXSW one year.

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@LucretiaPruitt Of first 400 ppl I followed on Twitter I met 125 in person at conferences and tweetups. Built lasting friendships.

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entions texted to me. I miss old days of convos and friend building

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@LucretiaPruitt: Yeah, I’m never on Twitter anymore but still get m

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@LucretiaPruitt That sounds about right. I remember that tweet ups began to spread like wildfire.

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terville.

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@LucretiaPruitt: it might have been @scottmonty who coined the term tweetup but I remember the exchange. Good memories when @shelisrael w...

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@greta NO #greta

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@tamera @SheilaS @MackCollier Ha! Haven't checked Plurk in years.

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Ah, the summer of 2008. No one was sure if Twitter would even survive the Fail Whale. @SheilaS @gloriabell @MackCollier

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Adding my thanks to @CiscoLive for supporting #mikeroweWORKS #clus

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.@TDefren @labnol No idea I was the first! Believe I was referring to launch of SMC Dallas. I know we launched SMC Austin that month.