{"id":1002,"date":"2008-03-26T00:16:17","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T07:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/26\/i-dont-get-twitter\/"},"modified":"2008-03-25T08:42:42","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T15:42:42","slug":"i-dont-get-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/26\/i-dont-get-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t get Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2008\/03\/twitter.png\" alt=\"Twitter Logo - why twit? what's the attraction?\" \/><\/div>\n<p>At the risk of sounding like an old fogey, I don&#8217;t get <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Twitter<\/a>. I&#8217;ve tried, but I just don&#8217;t see the necessity for what amounts to sms updates to the world at large &#8211; I mean, why bother? There&#8217;s IM that tells if you&#8217;re available or not. Email is instantaneous and ubiquitous these days. People, ahem, blog frequently letting others know what they&#8217;re up to. Why Twit? What&#8217;s the big attraction? Has it ever proven useful? Enquiring minds want to know&#8230;..<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhile I don&#8217;t get Twitter, I do have to admit, for some unknown reason, <a href=\"https:\/\/twittervision.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Twittervision<\/a> can be mesmerizing although it&#8217;s a complete waste of time. All these people twitting here and there projected on a global map. But look at the content for a moment and it&#8217;s easy to realize this is not a high value communications medium.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSo intrepid readers, if you twitter, tell me, what am I missing? Have I crossed the threshold to old?<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the risk of sounding like an old fogey, I don&#8217;t get Twitter. I&#8217;ve tried, but I just don&#8217;t see the necessity for what amounts to sms updates to the world at large &#8211; I mean, why bother? There&#8217;s IM that tells if you&#8217;re available or not. Email is instantaneous and ubiquitous these days. People, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}