It’s only been a day or so, but OHHDL has 5,686 followers on twitter at the time of this netfxcafe post, myself included.

Actually, the O seems to stand for Office, as in "Office of His Holiness The Dalai Lama", but none the less, it will be very interesting to watch how they use twitter to communicate with their followers.

I have a life long interest in spirituality, and a long standing professional background in technology. This is fascinating to me on both fronts, especially as I am just now looking for ways to merge these two interests into one career.

More to come on this topic, for sure.

* Update: It’s been, ohhh, about 20 or so minutes since I first posted this, and OHHDL now has 6,229 followers. I would love to see a graph of how the followers number grows for His Holiness The Dalai Lama.

I think there is a common misconception that spiritual people are somehow behind the times, or that the folks that are out front in terms of technology somehow don’t care about such things. What I am finding more and more is that this is far from the case. There is a much better story to tell here, but it is 8 AM on a Sunday here for me… not quite the pondering hour for me.

** Update as of 02/09/2009

According to this news article, Twitter has suspended the OHHDL account “because it violated our Terms of Use regarding impersonation”. Would be interesting to know more about this story.