{"id":1285,"date":"2010-09-27T07:30:49","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T07:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2010-09-27T07:30:49","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T07:30:49","slug":"what-did-we-do-before-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/uncategorized\/what-did-we-do-before-twitter","title":{"rendered":"What did we do before twitter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a nice article by Charles Arthur on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/pda\/2010\/sep\/27\/twitter-facebook-charles-arthur\"><em>Guardian Technology<\/em> website about Twitter<\/a>. I can&#8217;t remember when I started using Twitter, but now I couldn&#8217;t imagine life without it. It&#8217;s an incredibly useful communication tool, even more so now I have a smartphone. Yet still many people grumble about it, and claim that it is a colossal waste of time, or that it is utterly banal.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur makes this point:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some people &#8230; will complain that they &#8220;don&#8217;t see the point&#8221; of Twitter. Sure, if your job or your business doesn&#8217;t depend on just-in-time information, or if you find it hard to engage with other people in a supportive way, you&#8217;re going to find Twitter perplexing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to use Twitter properly to benefit from it. You have to give as well as take. If you have 20 000 followers but only follow five yourself, you aren&#8217;t using Twitter properly. If you get your publisher to tweet on your behalf when some marketing or promotion is needed, then you aren&#8217;t using Twitter properly. And if all you do is Tweet your latest blog post, that&#8217;s also a Twitter #fail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a nice article by Charles Arthur on the Guardian Technology website about Twitter. I can&#8217;t remember when I started using Twitter, but now I couldn&#8217;t imagine life without it&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1286,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions\/1286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}