{"id":398,"date":"2009-09-02T22:08:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T05:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2009\/09\/02\/twitter-is-what-blogging-was-4-years-ago\/"},"modified":"2009-09-02T22:08:56","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T05:08:56","slug":"twitter-is-what-blogging-was-4-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2009\/09\/02\/twitter-is-what-blogging-was-4-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter is what blogging was 4 years ago?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had an email from a good friend, whom I actually got to know through mutual open source interests, but also by simply discussing topics on my blog.&nbsp; He writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whether you like it or not, twitter is now what blogs were 3 or 4 years ago, and you need to get involved in it, Nick.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Twitter seems like a medium that while easy and fast, is ill suited to the topics I like to blog about.&nbsp; Technical articles, tips, with samples and screenshots seems like it would be tough to get across on Twitter.&nbsp; I tried twitter &#8211; actually, ages ago but then deleted my account almost immediately because I just thought it was downright &#8220;silly&#8221; to &#8220;text the world&#8221; 150 characters at a time.<\/p>\n<p>What am I missing?&nbsp; My friend quoted above is highly regarded, certainly by me.&nbsp; What am I missing?&nbsp; Why would I want to communicate to the world in medium without image, italics, attachments, etc?&nbsp; Phrasing it more positively, what is the best part about Twitter that makes it work foregoing time spent on this blog for Tweeting instead?<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=418c0cf1-6515-8ddb-8bd6-6bf7fad1fafb\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had an email from a good friend, whom I actually got to know through mutual open source interests, but also by simply discussing topics on my blog.&nbsp; He writes: Whether you like it or not, twitter is now what blogs were 3 or 4 years ago, and you need to get involved in it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}