{"id":2183,"date":"2011-06-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=2183"},"modified":"2011-06-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"twitter-is-about-the-interest-graph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/twitter-is-about-the-interest-graph\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter is about \u201cthe interest graph.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class='posterous_autopost'>\n<div class=\"posterous_bookmarklet_entry\">\n<blockquote class=\"posterous_medium_quote\"><p>The first thing to understand is that Facebook is all about \u201cthe social graph\u201d while Twitter is about \u201cthe interest graph.\u201d For the most part, you \u201cfriend\u201d people on Facebook because you\u2019ve met them at some point in real life. Twitter is about reading and engaging with interesting people, whether you know them or not.  The whole point of Twitter is find people with interesting stuff to say, and tune into their train of thought. If you\u2019re waiting for your friends to join Twitter, you\u2019re misunderstanding what the service is for.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"posterous_quote_citation\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/birdhouse.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/06\/a-guide-to-twitter-for-facebook-users\/\">birdhouse.org<\/a><\/div>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/birdhouse.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/06\/a-guide-to-twitter-for-facebook-users\/\">A Guide to Twitter for Facebook Users \u2014 scot hacker&#8217;s foobar blog<\/a> the best intro to twitter I&#8217;ve seen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first thing to understand is that Facebook is all about \u201cthe social graph\u201d while Twitter is about \u201cthe interest graph.\u201d For the most part, you \u201cfriend\u201d people on Facebook because you\u2019ve met them at some point in real life. Twitter is about reading and engaging with interesting people, whether you know them or not. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wwwd","7":"kind-","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-zd","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}