{"id":1293,"date":"2009-05-06T10:21:41","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T17:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2009\/05\/does_this_make_me_a_twitterer\/"},"modified":"2009-05-06T10:21:41","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T17:21:41","slug":"does_this_make_me_a_twitterer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/does_this_make_me_a_twitterer.php","title":{"rendered":"Does this make me a twitterer or just a twit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to finally dive into Twitter this past month, since it seemed to be getting serious traction as a tool. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/artfulmanager\">follow me<\/a> if you like.<\/p>\n<p>I was wary of the step, as I couldn&#8217;t identify a tangible benefit to knowing short bursts of facts about strangers &#8212; buying coffee, eating pickles, tweeting while I drive, escaping the smoldering wreckage on the highway caused by tweeting while I drive, and so on. But I&#8217;ve actually found some real utility.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter, or more specifically the users of Twitter, provides a stream of links, insights, references, citations, and trends that I wouldn&#8217;t find otherwise. I&#8217;ve already discovered a half dozen books I didn&#8217;t know about, a few new reports from the arts and related fields, and some fascinating initiatives among arts marketers, managers, and supporters. And I&#8217;ll have to admit that <a href=\"http:\/\/theomniscientmussel.com\/2009\/05\/operaplot-entries-round-2\/\">#operaplot<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#search?q=%23haiku\">#haiku<\/a> have both provided a happy refuge.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t say the system is for everyone (as the<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nielsen.com\/nielsenwire\/online_mobile\/twitter-quitters-post-roadblock-to-long-term-growth\/\"> 60 percent defection rate<\/a> will attest). But for those of us who need to scan the universe for bits and pieces of evidence on our industry, our society, and our world, it&#8217;s not a bad addition to the toolkit.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;ll go tweet the fact that I&#8217;ve blogged about Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to finally dive into Twitter this past month, since it seemed to be getting serious traction as a tool. You can follow me if you like. I was wary of the step, as I couldn&#8217;t identify a tangible benefit to knowing short bursts of facts about strangers &#8212; buying coffee, eating pickles, tweeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}