{"id":4404,"date":"2012-05-24T02:40:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T08:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=4404"},"modified":"2012-07-03T08:28:40","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T14:28:40","slug":"you-suck-at-retweeting-and-favoriting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=4404","title":{"rendered":"You Suck at Retweeting and Favoriting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Frommer at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splatf.com\/2012\/05\/retweeting\/\">SplatF on the subject of Twitter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;it really bums me out how bad many people are at retweeting.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I think his post dovetails into a larger discussion on how I think Twitter intends people to use their product now (but not everyone has caught on or chooses to follow).<\/p>\n<p>I feel most users continue to use Retweets for things they should&#8217;ve favorited, or simply replied to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Favorites: interesting things said that I like and want to be able to recall, but need not broadcast directly to my followers, but perhaps indirectly through the Discover tab or third-parties like <a href=\"http:\/\/stellar.io\">stellar<\/a> (positive mentions, links to me, funny video clips)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Retweets: things I found interesting and relevant enough that my audience of followers would too, thinking &#8220;if I wrote this would I expect others to share it verbatim?&#8221; (sharing links including photos and video clips, or quotes from direct sources)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Replies: I want to respond to something or someone and if my followership happens to overlap, I can provide a great threaded discussion where context is already known and easy to follow&#8230; or I can write an original thought in response to something if I want all to see (by removing the @reply prefix but keeping the reply association)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The biggest violators of the above make for a noisy, circle-jerk of self congratulations, duplicate content, and one-word replies copying entire tweets senselessly. I&#8217;ve found these violators sometimes amass a large following and are actually doing the opposite of much of the above intentionally (social media &#8220;experts&#8221; in some cases).<\/p>\n<p>More and more I&#8217;m starting to find the structured-but-not-entirely-enforcable nature of Twitter to be less endearing than a controlled experience like Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Frommer at SplatF on the subject of Twitter: &#8230;it really bums me out how bad many people are at retweeting. I think his post dovetails into a larger discussion on how I think Twitter intends people to use their product now (but not everyone has caught on or chooses to follow). I feel most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-social-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4404"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4695,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404\/revisions\/4695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}