{"id":139,"date":"2009-06-30T22:28:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T21:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/?p=139"},"modified":"2009-06-30T22:29:38","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T21:29:38","slug":"twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/06\/30\/twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well I tried it.<\/p>\n<p>I only told a couple of people, I was more interested in following a few things than posting updates.<\/p>\n<p>Within a couple of days I got my first random follower. It was a spambot, which was blocked.<\/p>\n<p>Today I got my second random follower. Another spambot, quickly blocked.<\/p>\n<p>On my &#8220;followers&#8221; page, the <strong>one<\/strong> legit follower I had wasn&#8217;t showing.<\/p>\n<p>I have now deleted my account. What a pile of cack! Even the things I was keen on following post crap. I was dubious about it from the start but thought I&#8217;d check it out to see what all the fuss was about&#8230; which turns out to be yet another target for spam. I&#8217;m actually enjoying Failbook (I have it quite well tied down and have only had two random friends requests in the three months since I joined) but this&#8230; it really is for people who have a lot of time for nothing, from what I can see. I certainly don&#8217;t have that sort of time and no longer wonder what I&#8217;m missing out on. It&#8217;s sod all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I tried it. I only told a couple of people, I was more interested in following a few things than posting updates. Within a couple of days I got my first random follower. It was a spambot, which was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/06\/30\/twitter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-negatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}