{"id":11764,"date":"2015-07-21T13:38:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T17:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11764"},"modified":"2015-07-21T13:38:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T17:38:45","slug":"embrace-cross-posting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/21\/embrace-cross-posting\/","title":{"rendered":"Embrace Cross-posting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manton.org\/2015\/07\/embrace-cross-posting.html\">Manton Reece<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.manton.org\/2015\/07\/two-weeks-notice-the-first-weekend.html\">congrats<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.manton.org\/2015\/07\/embrace-cross-posting.html\">\n<p>When App.net was first taking off, many microbloggers struggled with how to decide where to post their short-form writing. Should they post some topics to Twitter and others to App.net? Should they cross-post everything to both services? At the time, there was an informal consensus that cross-posting was a cheat. It couldn&rsquo;t take advantage of each platform&rsquo;s strengths, and followers might often see the same post twice.<\/p>\n<p>I now believe that cross-posting is a good thing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;m now posting blog links to both Twitter and App.net, and each blog post now links to its day on my Twitter timeline. I&rsquo;m not sure about cross-posting conversations, though. I don&rsquo;t like reading the same posts twice.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manton Reece (congrats): When App.net was first taking off, many microbloggers struggled with how to decide where to post their short-form writing. Should they post some topics to Twitter and others to App.net? Should they cross-post everything to both services? At the time, there was an informal consensus that cross-posting was a cheat. It couldn&rsquo;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[389,52,49],"class_list":["post-11764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-app-dot-net","tag-rss","tag-twitter"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11765,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11764\/revisions\/11765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}