{"id":2284,"date":"2009-06-14T17:16:08","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T00:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=2284"},"modified":"2009-06-14T17:36:11","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T00:36:11","slug":"on-the-usefulness-of-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=2284","title":{"rendered":"On the Usefulness of Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been much said about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, most of it negative, but Twitter is shining today.\u00a0 I realize this is highly perishable information, but at this moment the hot trending topics include #cnnfail, #iranelection, and #tehran.\u00a0 Apparently Iran can&#8217;t keep its citizens off Twitter, and they&#8217;re providing the news and photographic coverage our own media is unprepared to deliver.<\/p>\n<p>My God, what we could have done with Twitter during the Nixon years!\u00a0 My God, what we could have done with Twitter in the aftermath of our own stolen election, back in 2000!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been much said about Twitter, most of it negative, but Twitter is shining today.\u00a0 I realize this is highly perishable information, but at this moment the hot trending topics include #cnnfail, #iranelection, and #tehran.\u00a0 Apparently Iran can&#8217;t keep its citizens off Twitter, and they&#8217;re providing the news and photographic coverage our own media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10,16,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-brother","category-current-events","category-media","category-a-series-of-tubes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2284"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2289,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions\/2289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}