{"id":488,"date":"2007-05-17T11:40:42","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T10:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=488"},"modified":"2007-05-17T11:40:42","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T10:40:42","slug":"welcome-to-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heard of Twitter? Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates via SMS, instant messaging, the Twitter website or 3rd party applications.<br \/>\nI recently wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Connected.html#Review37\">an article<\/a> about these kinds of technique for being connected and I&#8217;ve just been persuaded by my Dutch friend and IT guru Oskar van Rijswijk &#8211; who got me started as a blogger &#8211; to try Twitter with him.<br \/>\nApparently Alan Johnson &#8211; my preferred candidate for the election for Labour Party Deputy Leader &#8211; is the first politician in the UK to become a twitterer &#8211; more information <a href=\"http:\/\/technology.guardian.co.uk\/weekly\/story\/0,,2080761,00.html\">here<\/a>. Good to see a former postman being so Net-savvy.<br \/>\nWant to know more about Twitter? There&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/help.twitter.com\/index.php?pg=kb.page&#038;id=26\">FAQ section<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heard of Twitter? Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates via SMS, instant messaging, the Twitter website or 3rd party applications. I recently wrote an article about these kinds of technique for being connected and I&#8217;ve just been persuaded by my Dutch friend and IT guru Oskar van [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","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\/488","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=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}