{"id":1014,"date":"2010-06-26T23:04:13","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T22:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2010-06-26T23:04:13","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T22:04:13","slug":"my-use-of-twitter-is-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/2010\/06\/my-use-of-twitter-is-changing.php","title":{"rendered":"My use of Twitter is changing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been a user of Twitter for way over 3 years and it has changed many ways in that time. What started out for me as\u00a0something\u00a0I did not really understand, then became a friendly tool for knowing what friends around the world were up to, to a tool for meeting new and interesting friends with\u00a0similar\u00a0interests, to today where we are to day.<\/p>\n

In the past I have applied my “pub rule” to my use of most social networking, including Twitter. I will allow\u00a0someone\u00a0to become “friends” \/ follow me\u00a0if I would go for a drink down the pub with them in real life\u00a0and feel I can speak\u00a0freely. Following the same logic I will only post\u00a0things that are visible to my friends\u00a0\/ followers that I would say down the pub (before drinking and everyone is my best mate :-) ). I don’t just post\u00a0anything mind, and consider that anything I post or say is not really secret, but it did allow me to be a little more open about my opinions and\u00a0revile\u00a0my current and future locations.<\/p>\n

On the whole this has been\u00a0successful\u00a0but\u00a0sadly there has been an incident in recent months when someone used the Newcastle City\u00a0Counsel\u00a0Twitter account to read my tweets, and then attempt to respond to them in a less than\u00a0professional\u00a0way on my personal blog. This has shaken me a little and the reason why I have been sharing less and why the official NCC twitter account has been unused recently.<\/p>\n

After this incident I have decided to share less, and because of that I don’t see any reason to keep my tweets secure so only people I trust can follow them.\u00a0So, as of some time next week I will be opening up my Twitter stream so anyone can see what I post. The down side of this is that I will be a little less open in what I post.<\/p>\n

As a side issue I have also had the problem of Twitter overload with so much information coming in I can not keep up. To cope with this I have also decided to “unfollow” a lot of accounts in order to filter it down a little. Please don’t take it personally if I do. More often than not I will have done it\u00a0because\u00a0you have said to much I am just not interested in and if you are not a\u00a0business\u00a0you should\u00a0probably\u00a0NOT change anything. If you are a\u00a0business\u00a0and I am your target\u00a0audience\u00a0then perhaps you should change, so please get in touch<\/a> and I will help where I can.<\/p>\n

Finally\u00a0because of the way Twitter works you will not be able to “DM” me if I do not follow you, or even “at” me if your updates are protected. In order to give everyone a way to contact me via Twitter I have set up @contactalistair<\/a> that, if you follow, will follow you back so we can communicate\u00a0through\u00a0it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been a user of Twitter for way over 3 years and it has changed many ways in that time. What started out for me as\u00a0something\u00a0I did not really understand, then became a friendly tool for knowing what friends around the world were up to, to a tool for meeting new and interesting friends […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t60H-gm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}