The first version of Gospelr was created by John Saddington. His vision was to simply create a Twitter-integrated microblogging service for Christians. His hope was that people would creatively use it for various purposes.
On 9/11/2009, Chris Matthieu acquired Gospelr's assets and developed a new and more Web 2.0 feature-rich website built on Ruby on Rails. In addition to Twitter integration, the new Gospelr includes a bible with social networking features such as tags, notes, bookmarks, etc.
So, what is Gospelr all about you say? Is it just another Twitter service? The answer is no. It’s not just another one in the mix, but rather it’s microblogging-as-ministry: Ministry Microblogging perhaps! Sure, you can tweet from Gospelr but you can also look at Gospelr as an online social bible study as well. Share your dreams, wishes, and prayers with other like-minded Christians.
The purpose is to provide an effective communication medium for sharing thoughts, ideas, words of encouragement, prayer requests, daily scripture readings/devotionals, and more to friends, staff, ministries, family, and others. But our hope is that it becomes so much more than just a Christian-Twitter: Our desire is that it is actually effectual in regards to sharing the Gospel with those who have already heard the Good News (because we all could use a good reminder… daily!) and those that have not. That’s why it’s integrated with Twitter.