{"id":823,"date":"2011-08-10T21:02:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T01:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bottlerockettheology.com\/?p=823"},"modified":"2011-08-10T21:02:12","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T01:02:12","slug":"twitter-is-not-just-for-teens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=823","title":{"rendered":"Twitter is not just for teens &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe you haven&#8217;t tried Twitter yet thinking that Twitter is only for teenage girls or millionaire athletes.\u00a0 I know, you probably realize that Twitter is more than that, but Twitter is extremely helpful in very practical ways that you may not have realized.<\/p>\n<p>For instance think of Twitter as an information feed from businesses or interests you are associated with.<\/p>\n<p>I follow very few people, but I follow several tech companies, e.g. magazines and software providers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I follow:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Crashplan &#8211; my online backup service.<\/li>\n<li>Logos Bible software, sales updates, new version notification<\/li>\n<li>MacWorld, MacFormat and others &#8211; tech software, hardware, hints, reviews<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Some examples:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I receive notifications when a company&#8217;s servers might be experiencing trouble or when they will be down for maintenance.<\/li>\n<li>I receive notices of app and software special deals.<\/li>\n<li>I receive links to use cases of software I use from other people who obviously use the same software.<\/li>\n<li>I receive notices of trends in the tech world &#8230; When is the iPhone 5 going to be out?<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes just interesting or humorous articles.<\/li>\n<li>Links to hardware and software and app reviews.<\/li>\n<li>Info about features of software I use.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Maybe you need a better app for your iPhone or app for your computer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t use Twitter for some time, not only because I didn&#8217;t realize the benefits, but also because my apps (phone and computer) were so clumsy and poorly designed.<\/p>\n<p>Suggestion:\u00a0 Try more than one; really makes a difference when you can actually find your information and easily navigate your page.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe you haven&#8217;t tried Twitter yet thinking that Twitter is only for teenage girls or millionaire athletes.\u00a0 I know, you probably realize that Twitter is more than that, but Twitter is extremely helpful in very practical ways that you may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=823\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3dxA8-dh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}