{"id":4251,"date":"2019-05-20T08:11:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T06:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4251"},"modified":"2019-05-20T08:11:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T06:11:32","slug":"our-new-twitter-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=4251","title":{"rendered":"Our New Twitter Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi comrades. Derek Blackadder of LabourStart Canada here.<\/p>\n<p>I manage a number of our Twitter accounts and help out with a couple of others. Recently Twitter has changed some of the limits it places on\u00a0 &#8216;churn&#8217; activities which until recently had allowed us to increase the number of followers of our accounts quite substantially and quickly. For example, on most of our accounts following 20 or so other accounts within a few minutes results in that action being no longer available to us for 25 hours. In the past doing this brought us to the attention of a great many Twitter users with an interest in labour news and resulted in us gaining many followers.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone has any other strategies that might replace the &#8216;churn&#8217; approach I would be grateful if you would contact me with details either here or at Canada@LabourStart.org.<\/p>\n<p>In Solidarity,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi comrades. Derek Blackadder of LabourStart Canada here. I manage a number of our Twitter accounts and help out with a couple of others. Recently Twitter has changed some of the limits it places on\u00a0 &#8216;churn&#8217; activities which until recently had allowed us to increase the number of followers of our accounts quite substantially and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251"}],"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=4251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4254,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions\/4254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}