{"id":981,"date":"2008-05-30T08:37:35","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T07:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=981"},"modified":"2008-06-04T20:57:29","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T19:57:29","slug":"making-sense-of-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/05\/making-sense-of-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Making sense of Twitter for journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">I<\/span> know there&#8217;s nothing like being late to a party, but if you&#8217;re still wondering how to make sense of <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, then let me share a couple of tips.<\/p>\n<p>You need <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twhirl.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Twhirl<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; think IM interface &#8211; an <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RSS_(file_format)\" target=\"_blank\">RSS<\/a><\/strong> reader and <a href=\"http:\/\/tweetscan.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Tweetscan<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/summize.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Summize<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/twitbuzz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twitbuzz<\/a>. Then you can set up custom searches on Tweetscan, dump them into a reader, and manage your tweets with the IM interface. As culinary philanthropist <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gordon_Ramsay\" target=\"_blank\">Gordon Ramsay<\/a><\/strong> would say: &#8211; Twitter. Done.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update<\/em>: Try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitscoop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Twitscoop<\/strong><\/a> for a live Twitter tag cloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know there&#8217;s nothing like being late to a party, but if you&#8217;re still wondering how to make sense of Twitter, then let me share a couple of tips. You need Twhirl &#8211; think IM interface &#8211; an RSS reader and Tweetscan\/Summize\/Twitbuzz. Then you can set up custom searches on Tweetscan, dump them into a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}