{"id":15826,"date":"2009-05-08T11:44:43","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T11:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2009\/05\/i-twitter.html"},"modified":"2009-05-08T11:44:43","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T11:44:43","slug":"i_twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/08\/i_twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"I, Twit(ter)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have the attention span of&#8230; wait, hang on&#8230; uh&#8230; {spinning beachball pupils}&#8230; <em>shiny thing shiny thing, start two emails, open three tabs&#8230;<\/em> ah yes&#8211;the attention span of a sugar-smacked third grader.  Therefore I&#8217;ve tried to keep Twitter at arm&#8217;s length, to say the least.  I&#8217;ve felt like Old Man (Jon) Stewart <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/video\/index.jhtml?videoId=219519&amp;title=twitter-frenzy\">shaking his fist<\/a> at the technology, digging how McSweeny&#8217;s has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/2009\/3\/31kennedy.html\">characterized it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Twitter seems to be, first and foremost, an online haven where teenagers making drugs can telegraph secret code words to arrange gang fights and orgies. It also functions as a vehicle for teasing peers until they commit suicide.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As my friend Hughes says, &#8220;It&#8217;s like reading someone&#8217;s life in fortune cookies&#8211;and about as nutritious*.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ah, but now, for whatever reason, I&#8217;ve taken the plunge and am <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jnack\">on Twitter as jnack<\/a>.  It&#8217;s a little like a dog catching a car, though: now what does he do with it?  People seem happy I&#8217;m there, but I&#8217;m not quite sure what they&#8217;re expecting.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m curious what you, as a reader of this blog, would like to see.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Should I create separate profiles in order to separate kid-related stuff from Adobe-related stuff?  Or do you actually want to hear about our toddler <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jnack\/status\/1696862184\">celebrating bacon<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>Should I post content on Twitter first (offering immediacy without context), then take the time to group things here as I always have?  (I&#8217;ve structured this blog as one I&#8217;d want to read.  I&#8217;d generally prefer to have fewer, better links than to have more random ones, and I&#8217;d prefer to have a sense of what to expect before clicking.)<\/li>\n<li>Should I look into pulling my feed onto the blog as some sort of sidebar?  (I have no idea what&#8217;s possible, just that it&#8217;s gotta be doable.)<\/li>\n<li>Are there tools that you&#8217;d recommend to make Twitter more useful?  So far Tweetie seems good, and I&#8217;m playing with Birdhouse and Twitterific on my iPhone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t just want to hear myself talk.  It&#8217;ll be worth tweeting only if people are actually getting something useful out of the effort, so I welcome any thoughts or advice you&#8217;d like to share.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>J.<\/p>\n<p><em>*What a perfect tweet, say I, having immediately become the pusher-man.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have the attention span of&#8230; wait, hang on&#8230; uh&#8230; {spinning beachball pupils}&#8230; shiny thing shiny thing, start two emails, open three tabs&#8230; ah yes&#8211;the attention span of a sugar-smacked third grader. Therefore I&#8217;ve tried to keep Twitter at arm&#8217;s length, to say the least. I&#8217;ve felt like Old Man (Jon) Stewart shaking his fist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15826"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}