{"id":348,"date":"2009-03-19T08:56:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T12:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/?p=348"},"modified":"2009-03-27T18:04:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T22:04:26","slug":"a-twitter-and-a-twatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/a-twitter-and-a-twatter\/","title":{"rendered":"A Twitter and a Twatter&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.I tried.\u00a0 I am not a Facebooker, a My Spacer or on any of the social networks that are more a time vacum than anything. Really.\u00a0 I do not need 1,000 followers or friends I&#8217;ve never met before.\u00a0 And the pressure to keep up with all those followers and friends?\u00a0 I can barely keep up with the dirty laundry and my daughters daily homework.\u00a0 Filling in 1,000 or more friends on my day to day?\u00a0 With current photos?\u00a0 Not ever going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>So I Twittered;thanks to my brother- who tweets on his twitter with much 140 character joy.\u00a0 He has lots of followers.\u00a0 Lots.\u00a0 He tweets in the twee tops all day long.\u00a0 I bit the tweet back in February and thought I could handle the immediate and compactability of twittering.\u00a0 But I have not checked my Twitter in days-nor do I remember to update and narrow down\u00a0\u00a0my minute to minute life\u00a0to only 140 characters.\u00a0 I have failed as a twitter.\u00a0 Does this make me a twat?\u00a0 Twat should I do?\u00a0 To tweet and retweet or to walk away?<\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=217894238264870\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/a-twitter-and-a-twatter\/\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"al2fb_send_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=217894238264870\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:send ref=\"AL2FB\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/a-twitter-and-a-twatter\/\"><\/fb:send><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.I tried.\u00a0 I am not a Facebooker, a My Spacer or on any of the social networks that are more a time vacum than anything. Really.\u00a0 I do not need 1,000 followers or friends I&#8217;ve never met before.\u00a0 And the pressure to keep up with all those followers and friends?\u00a0 I can barely keep up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memyselfandi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}