{"id":2452,"date":"2009-05-06T20:46:15","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T03:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=2452"},"modified":"2009-05-06T20:46:15","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T03:46:15","slug":"twitter-mania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/06\/twitter-mania\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter-mania"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2009\/05\/tweetybird.jpg\" alt=\"The only Tweety I love is Tweety Bird\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/26\/i-dont-get-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\" >I&#8217;ve already declared myself on this subject<\/a> many moons ago, so don&#8217;t view this post as anything other than status quo. Even on the far side of the world, twitter-mania is running rampant. The fact that simple multi-cast of short text messages is causing this hurts my head.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWho cares that Oprah is tweeting, I mean, really? Can&#8217;t you watch the Oprah show, read Oprah magazine, visit the website, and sign up for newsletters already? And the addition of Demi and Ashton, yuck!<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/politics\/article\/0,8599,1896482,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" >CNN is running a front page on the Whitehouse jumping on twitter<\/a>. Egads, it&#8217;s out of control!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWell, I&#8217;m going to go out on a limb as this meme is crossing over from the geek-o-sphere to common knowledge to say: it&#8217;s a fad. There is nothing unique, sustainable, or even interesting about twitter. Those who use it, will in the future be known as <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/twit\" target=\"_blank\" >Twits<\/a>. Trust me, it&#8217;s MySpace on steroids. The aspect that will survive is the notion of personal broadcasting &#8211; narcissism reigns supreme and I don&#8217;t see that changing anytime soon.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the only Tweet that is a good Tweet is Tweety Bird, thanks Warner Brothers and Mel Blanc.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve already declared myself on this subject many moons ago, so don&#8217;t view this post as anything other than status quo. Even on the far side of the world, twitter-mania is running rampant. The fact that simple multi-cast of short text messages is causing this hurts my head. Who cares that Oprah is tweeting, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3,6],"tags":[834,152,835,833,832,692],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452"}],"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=2452"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2457,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions\/2457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}