@bhamchat is a weekly online conversation about Birmingham, AL that takes place on Tuesday nights from 7-8:30 p.m. CT. Courtesy of @bhamterminal. And on the 12th January, 2011, @bhamchat held their chat session in Nurph rather than in the Twitter timeline.
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We're doing something a little different tonight - Come chat with us in http://nurph.com/bhamchat starting @ 7 p.m. #bhamchat
— bhamchat (@bhamchat) January 12, 2011
Help spread the word - we'll be doing tonight's #bhamchat @ http://nurph.com/bhamchat starting at 7 p.m. Hope to see you there!
— bhamchat (@bhamchat) January 12, 2011
Tonight's #bhamchat will not take place in the stream, but here - http://bit.ly/f0fLsP - come by and join the conversation (or just watch)
— bhamchat (@bhamchat) January 12, 2011
Thanks to those of you that stopped by our not-on-Twitter Twitter chat this evening! #bhamchat We'll try it there again next week too
— bhamchat (@bhamchat) January 12, 2011
You can read the entire conversation transcript right here http://nurph.com/bhamchat/logs/12-January-2011 and it features the following Twitter community members...
- @bhamchat, the moderator- @chris_depew
- @ageekgirl
- @thegeekwife
- @salsaritasoho
- @ButtermilkMeeks
- @tmgoodrich
- @dgarvich
- and @sheets
But why would @bhamchat have chosen to use Nurph in the first place? Here are just some of the reasons that @bhamchat would have noted when migrating their Twitter chat session over to Nurph:
- Twitter: Limited to 140 chars.
- Twitter: Hashtag participants have to include the hashtag in every tweet.
- Twitter: Hashtag participants broadcast their hashtag tweets to ALL their followers.
- Twitter: No moderation. Anyone can spam your hashtag.
- Twitter: Pulling together transcripts is tricky.
- Nurph: No character limit. It's real-time chat!
- Nurph: No need to include a hashtag in every remark. Just chat naturally.
- Nurph: Participants don't broadcast their every remark to their followers.
- Nurph: Moderation for free. You can hand pick the people who can chat (only the people you follow), and everyone else can watch.
- Nurph: Transcripts come for free, and on easily shared URLs.
- Nurph: Transcripts read much more like a cohesive conversation the than 140 character hashtag search results do.
- Nurph: Twitter profiles, @Anywhere and tweet-streaming are baked right in to the core of Nurph. The integration with Twitter is almost seamless.
Are you running a Twitter hashtag? Use Nurph for your next chat session and see the benefits. Just login to Nurph and get chatting.