{"id":747,"date":"2009-10-08T08:11:06","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T06:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=747"},"modified":"2009-10-08T08:11:06","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T06:11:06","slug":"twittercounter-and-twitpic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=747","title":{"rendered":"TwitterCounter and TwitPic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read a book recently called <em>Twitter Power<\/em> and it is basically a guide to businesses on how to use Twitter for marketing.\u00a0 It had several interesting ideas some of which I&#8217;ve implemented, and over the last few days (and the next few), I&#8217;m trying out a number of third party features they recommended.\u00a0 Yesterday, for example, I tested Twitpic &#8212; a way to publish photos via Twitter.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve shared details of how to do that with Derek Blackadder, who does our daily photo for LabourStart.\u00a0 Today I tested <a href=\"http:\/\/twittercounter.com\/labourstart\">TwitterCounter<\/a> This shows that while we are growing, and LabourStart has more followers than 99% of Twitter users, we could grow much faster.\u00a0 As of this morning, we&#8217;re at <strong>1,585<\/strong> followers.\u00a0 While this isn&#8217;t even close to being as large as our mailing lists, it&#8217;s nothing to be sneered at either.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s grow the number of followers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read a book recently called Twitter Power and it is basically a guide to businesses on how to use Twitter for marketing.\u00a0 It had several interesting ideas some of which I&#8217;ve implemented, and over the last few days (and the next few), I&#8217;m trying out a number of third party features they recommended.\u00a0 Yesterday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}