{"id":739,"date":"2009-07-14T09:51:17","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T13:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/wordpress\/?p=739"},"modified":"2009-08-05T00:49:19","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T04:49:19","slug":"twitter-here-i-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2009\/07\/14\/twitter-here-i-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter here I come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Mattclare\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Matt-Clare-Mattclare-on-Twitter-300x262.png\" alt=\"Matt Clare (Mattclare) on Twitter\" title=\"Matt Clare (Mattclare) on Twitter\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Matt-Clare-Mattclare-on-Twitter-300x262.png 300w, https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Matt-Clare-Mattclare-on-Twitter.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Despite my previous four years of objections and a <a href=\"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/25\/why-im-staying-out-of-the-twitisphere\/\">blog post<\/a>, I&#8217;ve finally given in and decided to start using my Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>Like any good resistance leader I know when to surrender and accept a position in the new order.<\/p>\n<p>As I predicted a few months ago, the conversations happening on Twitter would likely eventually draw me in and force me to look past the narcissism. I&#8217;ve read Twitter tags like <a href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=%23IranElection\">#IranElection<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=%23Sakai\">#Sakai<\/a> (and <a href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=%23Sakai09\">#Sakai09<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#search?q=%23D2L09\">#D2L09<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=%23f1\">#f1<\/a>. I feel like it&#8217;s time I start contributing.  That and blogging with more than 140 characters is hard!<\/p>\n<p>The plan is that I&#8217;ll start using my <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Mattclare\">mattclare<\/a> Twitter account Monday July 20th and I hope to have some interesting tweets through the rest of the week&#8230;.. after that week I can&#8217;t guarantee I&#8217;ll still have any good ideas left.<\/p>\n<p>To pique your interest, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Mattclare\/statuses\/2632240884\">here&#8217;s a sample tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"JavaScript\" src=\"http:\/\/kumu.brocku.ca\/feed\/feed2js.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fstatuses%2Fuser_timeline%2F27106721.rss&amp;num=10&amp;desc=0&amp;date=y\" ><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite my previous four years of objections and a blog post, I&#8217;ve finally given in and decided to start using my Twitter account. Like any good resistance leader I know when to surrender and accept a position in the new order. As I predicted a few months ago, the conversations happening on Twitter would likely&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2009\/07\/14\/twitter-here-i-come\/\">Continue Reading<span> Twitter here I come<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}