{"id":16,"date":"2008-04-15T10:33:55","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T18:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.unbc.ca\/~gpotter\/?p=16"},"modified":"2008-04-15T10:33:55","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T18:33:55","slug":"origins-of-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Origins of Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1054\/1203772257_55e491849b_o.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter\" align=\"left\" height=\"84\" hspace=\"15\" width=\"224\" \/> I have been using Twitter to tap into some fantastic back-channel conversations for the last few months, yet despite my raving about how much fun and insight I am divining from the folks I am following on Twitter,  all of the people I work with see neither the value of it&#8217;s utility nor the just plain fun Twitter can be. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.tv\/video\/a-talk-with-twitter-guys\" title=\"Twitter Dudes\" target=\"_blank\">FastCompany.tv<\/a><\/strong> has a great interview about the origins of Twitter with the guys that turn the wheels behind the service&#8217;s curtain.  Interesting background on the service as well as some insight from them regarding where they see the value and usability of Twitter.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been using Twitter to tap into some fantastic back-channel conversations for the last few months, yet despite my raving about how much fun and insight I am divining from the folks I am following on Twitter, all of the people I work with see neither the value of it&#8217;s utility nor the just&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,47],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-play","tag-social","tag-twitter","h-entry","hentry","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}