{"id":1441,"date":"2009-06-08T09:42:30","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T08:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2009-06-08T09:42:30","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T08:42:30","slug":"who-is-doing-the-twittering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1441","title":{"rendered":"Who is doing the Twittering?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I explained in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/2007\/05\/welcome_to_twitter.html\">this posting<\/a>, I first tried Twitter two years ago. I soon decided that it was not for me.<br \/>\nFrankly, I&#8217;ve been surprised that two years later so many people &#8211; and much of the media &#8211; seem to have suddenly discovered Twitter and decided that it&#8217;s a powerful communications tool. For some it has worked well (Stephen Fry and Demi Moore, for instance) but, for most, I suspect it&#8217;s just a passing fad.<br \/>\nSo who is doing all this Twittering. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/technologyNews\/idINIndia-40101620090605\">this piece<\/a>, an examination of 300,000 Twitter users that 10% of Twitter users generated more than 90% of the content, while more than half of all Twitter users post messages on the site less than once every 74 days.<br \/>\nDo you use Twitter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I explained in this posting, I first tried Twitter two years ago. I soon decided that it was not for me. Frankly, I&#8217;ve been surprised that two years later so many people &#8211; and much of the media &#8211; seem to have suddenly discovered Twitter and decided that it&#8217;s a powerful communications tool. For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}