{"id":2012,"date":"2017-05-15T00:04:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T21:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/?p=2012\/"},"modified":"2017-05-15T18:31:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T15:31:10","slug":"the-word-of-the-week-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/the-word-of-the-week-is\/","title":{"rendered":"The word of the week is <i>Twitter stream<\/i>."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Should I follow everyone on Twitter who follows me? Last week I\u00a0gained<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>a new follower \u2013 someone who was following 300,000 other accounts. This tells me something about the way he uses Twitter: he&#8217;s not reading anything those people post. Often these accounts belong to marketers for whom Twitter is a low-priced ad channel and a sales tool. Such an advertiser vanishes if you don\u2019t follow back.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, reading and commenting on other\u00a0people\u2019s tweets are at least as important as sharing your own. I still consider Twitter as a news source and a learning environment, so I prefer to follow those who share my interests. Inevitably this means I&#8217;ll miss many good content providers, but I need to manage the overall stream of messages. If you follow everyone, the message stream will inundate you.<\/p>\n<p>In Twitter&#8217;s early days, I said I could keep up with maybe 400. Only after several years did I gradually increase that number, and now I can deal with about a thousand accounts quite well. I don&#8217;t really think it&#8217;s possible to read the tweets of a much larger number that you follow\u2013not if you have anything else to do in your life. You can of course mute accounts that are uninteresting, but then what&#8217;s the point of following them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should I follow everyone on Twitter who follows me? Last week I\u00a0gained\u00a0a new follower \u2013 someone who was following 300,000 other accounts. This tells me something about the way he uses Twitter: he&#8217;s not reading anything those people post. Often these accounts belong to marketers for whom Twitter is a low-priced ad channel and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-english-en","7":"category-wordoftheweek-en","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2019,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions\/2019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}