{"id":844,"date":"2009-11-24T09:49:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T07:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=844"},"modified":"2009-11-24T09:49:39","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T07:49:39","slug":"first-attempt-at-a-twitter-petition-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=844","title":{"rendered":"First attempt at a Twitter petition &#8211; a success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Within minutes of launch our Twitter petition in support of the Vale Inco workers became the <strong>most popular petition of the day<\/strong> on act.ly; 24 hours after launch we have just under 400 supporters.\u00a0 At present, we&#8217;re the 7th most popular Twitter petition ever &#8212; and within a couple of hours, we should be the 4th.<\/p>\n<p>Of course this is <strong>not<\/strong> success &#8212; success would be getting the company to <strong>back down and negotiate<\/strong> with the workers.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, we&#8217;ve obviously caught the imagination of some activists and stirred up some excitement.\u00a0 Oh, and unlike some other campaigning tools, we&#8217;ve been able to use this to <strong>increase our campaigning capacity<\/strong>.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve managed to recruit a not-inconsiderable number of new Twitter followers (now up to 1,819).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within minutes of launch our Twitter petition in support of the Vale Inco workers became the most popular petition of the day on act.ly; 24 hours after launch we have just under 400 supporters.\u00a0 At present, we&#8217;re the 7th most popular Twitter petition ever &#8212; and within a couple of hours, we should be the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844"}],"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=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}