{"id":1598,"date":"2009-05-07T08:31:53","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T08:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2009-05-07T08:44:08","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T08:44:08","slug":"the-easy-guide-to-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2009\/05\/the-easy-guide-to-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Easy Guide to Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is my one-step, easy to execute <strong>how to Twitter <\/strong>guide. Think of a crap name for a pub, and post it to Twitter with the tag, #crapnamesforpubs.<\/p>\n<p>Then click this link, and watch your contribution add to this endlessly evolving, sociable, easy to operate happy meme. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=crapnamesforpubs\">http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=crapnamesforpubs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"616\" height=\"434\" src=\"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/picture-8.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Patronising Twitter Guides\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/picture-8.png 616w, https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/picture-8-300x211.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The flood of &#8220;how to&#8221;, exploitative, useless Twitter guides which are now appearing is indeed patronising, as intelligent commentators have noted. There is but one way to play, and that is: PLAY.<\/p>\n<p>I was thrilled to be a small part of the spontaneous eruption of a game last evening, which at times had me laughing like a drain, and which in a few short minutes became the most popular (i.e. &#8220;trending&#8221;) topic on Twitter. Apparently, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/contwext\/statuses\/1721044246\">these<\/a> strange <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/12C4\/statuses\/1724293744\">tweets<\/a>, I achieved some fleeting status because of my contributions. Most importantly, it doesn&#8217;t matter one tiny bit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitwank.com\">Please remember that<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is my one-step, easy to execute how to Twitter guide. Think of a crap name for a pub, and post it to Twitter with the tag, #crapnamesforpubs. Then click this link, and watch your contribution add to this endlessly evolving, sociable, easy to operate happy meme. http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=crapnamesforpubs The flood of &#8220;how to&#8221;, exploitative, useless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[369,335,298],"class_list":["post-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flip-side","tag-bollocks","tag-meme","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions\/1604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}