{"id":1442,"date":"2008-10-21T16:45:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T21:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2009-01-25T13:50:03","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T18:50:03","slug":"ok-ok-ill-join-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/10\/21\/ok-ok-ill-join-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, OK, I&#8217;ll join Twitter!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like you can&#8217;t throw a stone these days without hitting some mention of <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\">Twitter<\/a>. Everyone seems to be using it &#8211; and I admit, the <em>idea<\/em> seems sound. I hear a lot of people say that it&#8217;s replaced Instant Messaging for them.<\/p>\n<p>So, after dragging my feet for this long&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ksurvell\">I finally joined Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see how this works out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like you can&#8217;t throw a stone these days without hitting some mention of Twitter. Everyone seems to be using it &#8211; and I admit, the idea seems sound. I hear a lot of people say that it&#8217;s replaced Instant Messaging for them. So, after dragging my feet for this long&#8230; I finally joined&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/10\/21\/ok-ok-ill-join-twitter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OK, OK, I&#8217;ll join Twitter!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[203,200],"tags":[35,182],"class_list":["post-1442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-technology","category-my-life","tag-internet","tag-web-20","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-ng","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1862,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2009\/03\/13\/a-green-new-theme\/","url_meta":{"origin":1442,"position":0},"title":"A Green New Theme","author":"Keith Survell","date":"March 13, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I've finally stopped flipping through WordPress themes and settled on one I like - and it's really, really nice!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Internet&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Internet","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/technology\/internet-technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6013,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2023\/01\/04\/keiths-belated-guide-to-mastodon-for-twitter-exiles\/","url_meta":{"origin":1442,"position":1},"title":"Keith&#8217;s Belated Guide to Mastodon (for Twitter Exiles)","author":"Keith Survell","date":"January 4, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"There are a ton of \"what is Mastodon\" or \"getting started with Mastodon\" or \"what is this Mastodon thing, really?\" articles out there already, but this is my blog and I wanted to write my own guide, so here we are. 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