{"id":3111,"date":"2013-09-07T14:45:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T12:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3111"},"modified":"2013-09-07T14:45:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T12:45:02","slug":"more-twitter-feeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3111","title":{"rendered":"More Twitter Feeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something I&#8217;ve been meaning to mention for a while: the Canadian Twitter feeds (more the English than the French) have not only been steadily growing in popularity since they were introduced, but we get a fair bit of positive feedback about them. Our tweets are regularly RT&#8217;d by the accounts in the names of national union leaders and we are often asked to tweet re. events (strikes, conferences etc.).  And for particularly important events I get calls from union communication staff asking me to make sure that we tweet about the event as it happens.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the free food and t-shirts attending union events so I can tweet about it gets me, this provides LabourStart with a fair bit of attention. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a lot of work to use Hootsuite (or something similar) to start a feed that regularly tweets without any direct input from you.  If anyone wants to start one for your country I&#8217;d be happy to help.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Derek Blackadder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something I&#8217;ve been meaning to mention for a while: the Canadian Twitter feeds (more the English than the French) have not only been steadily growing in popularity since they were introduced, but we get a fair bit of positive feedback about them. Our tweets are regularly RT&#8217;d by the accounts in the names of national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3121,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions\/3121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}