{"id":14220,"date":"2016-04-19T09:41:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T13:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=14220"},"modified":"2016-04-19T09:41:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T13:41:14","slug":"whats-wrong-with-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/19\/whats-wrong-with-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"What&rsquo;s Wrong With Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lapcatsoftware.com\/articles\/twitter.html\">Jeff Johnson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/lapcatsoftware.com\/articles\/twitter.html\">\n<p>When I rejoined Twitter, I already knew who to follow, because I had people I followed during my previous stint. For completely new users, however, the first hurdle is figuring out who to follow. Twitter unhelpfully suggests celebrities. These suggestions are self-defeating, because celebrities are almost guaranteed to ignore you. They have way more followers than they can respond to personally. So you can follow celebrity accounts, tweet to the celebrity accounts, and ... nothing. That gets old quickly. You can try to &ldquo;personalize&rdquo; your experience by telling Twitter your interests, but the categories are so broad (e.g., Music) that you end up with more celebrity accounts anyway. And you can upload your contacts to Twitter in order to discover your contacts on Twitter, but what if you don&rsquo;t want to provide your address book to Twitter? And while uploading your contacts may be a good way of finding people you already know on Twitter, it&rsquo;s not necessarily a good way of finding people you don&rsquo;t know. What if you&rsquo;re interested in, say, Mac programming, and you&rsquo;re new and unknown in the field, so you don&rsquo;t have any existing contacts? Indeed, what if you&rsquo;re signing up for Twitter in order to meet other people in your field? Good luck with that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Johnson: When I rejoined Twitter, I already knew who to follow, because I had people I followed during my previous stint. For completely new users, however, the first hurdle is figuring out who to follow. Twitter unhelpfully suggests celebrities. These suggestions are self-defeating, because celebrities are almost guaranteed to ignore you. They have way [&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":[49],"class_list":["post-14220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-twitter"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14220","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=14220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14221,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14220\/revisions\/14221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}