{"id":132,"date":"2008-08-08T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=132"},"modified":"2008-08-04T18:57:35","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T01:57:35","slug":"im-all-a-twittercom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m all A-Twitter.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost immediately after succumbing to the seductive personal networking web site Facebook, I joined another, similar social networking site, <em>Twitter<\/em>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nYes, as with Facebook, I expressed reservations upon joining Twitter. That horrid MySpace experience was coming back to haunt me. But Twitter isn&#8217;t exactly a social networking site as much as it&#8217;s a combination on-line chat room and public forum, mixed with an excellent signal-to-noise filter.<\/p>\n<p>On Twitter, you <em>tweet<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly I use Twitter to philosophize.<\/p>\n<p>One legitimate question I got was on a social networking site called <em>tagged.com<\/em>. Someone I know got an invite to Tagged.com and wanted to know if it was a legitimate social networking site or some kind of scam. Turns out that it&#8217;s the latter. But that&#8217;s the kind of way Twitter can be used.<\/p>\n<p>The best thing about Twitter is that you&#8217;re limited to only 120 words to write whatever. There are no blogopotomuses on Twitter. That keeps it short a sweet. Plus you don&#8217;t have to hear everything; you need only follow those people you enjoy reading.<\/p>\n<p>Check me out on Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dangookin\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/dangookin<\/a> You do not need to be a member to read my posts. Another good thing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost immediately after succumbing to the seductive personal networking web site Facebook, I joined another, similar social networking site, Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}