{"id":193,"date":"2010-06-21T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/?p=193"},"modified":"2010-08-12T14:29:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T21:29:16","slug":"how-to-use-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/how-to-use-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a peaceful, quiet little twitter account since 2006.\u00a0 Then one day, on a lark, I threw up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/danshapiro\" target=\"_blank\">@danshapiro<\/a> up during a <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/9mkLYx\" target=\"_blank\">talk that I  was giving about RC airplanes<\/a>. The talk got <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2009\/10\/21\/a-geeky-introduction.html\" target=\"_blank\">boingboinged<\/a>, and my inbox flooded with random folks  following me.\u00a0 (Hi!)\u00a0 Ever since, I&#8217;ve had a couple of new follows a  day.\u00a0 Ashton, here I  come.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s the (blurry) algorithm I use to decide who to follow:<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 308px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Mytwitterfollowalgorithm.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-204 lazyload\" title=\"Mytwitterfollowalgorithm\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Mytwitterfollowalgorithm-241x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"308\" height=\"383\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Mytwitterfollowalgorithm-241x300.png 241w, https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Mytwitterfollowalgorithm.png 483w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 308px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 308\/383;\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If you&#39;re a friend, or your followers outnumber your follows, I&#39;ll look at your page.  If you don&#39;t tweet too often and at least a third of your tweets are interesting (and private exchanges with someone do not qualify), then I follow you.  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So that&#8217;s my decision tree.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s yours?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a peaceful, quiet little twitter account since 2006.  Then one day, on a lark, I threw up @danshapiro  up during a talk that I was giving about RC airplanes. The talk got boingboinged, and my inbox flooded with random folks following me.  (Hi!)  Ever since, I&#8217;ve had a couple of new follows a day.  Ashton, here I come.  So here&#8217;s the algorithm I use to decide who to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}