{"id":338,"date":"2010-08-31T11:16:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T18:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2010-08-31T11:16:50","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T18:16:50","slug":"have-you-changed-your-opinion-of-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"Have You Changed Your Opinion of Twitter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Friedman of Market Watch wrote an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/twitter-won-me-over-yes-i-admit-i-was-wrong-2010-08-30\">interesting article <\/a>yesterday explaining that he had gone from a Twitter critic to a Twitter convert. I realize that Twitter has value as a marketing tool and for breaking news, but it still hasn&#8217;t won me over. I don&#8217;t need to know details of people&#8217;s lives like what they had for lunch yesterday. I&#8217;ll probably come around to use it in the next couple of years, just like I came around and joined Facebook. I&#8217;m just not there yet. Do you use Twitter or are you still a Twitter skeptic like me? Convince me why I should convert. Please comment below.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marilynsholin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/twitter-bird-5.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Friedman of Market Watch wrote an interesting article yesterday explaining that he had gone from a Twitter critic to a Twitter convert. I realize that Twitter has value as a marketing tool and for breaking news, but it still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/?p=338\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}