{"id":444,"date":"2009-05-13T08:21:47","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T13:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/?p=444"},"modified":"2009-05-13T16:24:28","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T21:24:28","slug":"wednesday-wobble-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/?p=444","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Wobble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was about five months ago when I decided to jump into the world of twitter and since then twitter has become for me a sort of proxy for listening and chatting at the &#8220;watercooler&#8221; (at ensemble it was really the coffee maker).\u00c2 \u00c2  I am naturally a sort of internet lurker, tending to silently listen in to conversations more often than following people and taking part.<\/p>\n<p>I have actively not followed a large number of people, instead I followed a small number of people and enabled the see all replies options.\u00c2  This allowed me to see all (but direct messages) people I elected to follow were sending, even if it was a reply to a message sent to them that I did not see.\u00c2 \u00c2  Often a reply from a friend to someone I did not know would lead me to a new person, maybe one I might even follow.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I apparently have been doing it wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter (the company) does not want me to see replies to people I don&#8217;t follow, even if they are from people I am following; at least that is how I understand the latest change to the system.\u00c2 \u00c2  I guess they instead want me to follow, what I feel\u00c2  is a vastly high number of people simple to see chatter.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully applications, such as tweet deck are available.\u00c2  It will allow me to hide the masses of these new followers I am going to be forced to pick up, while displaying messages from those I &#8220;really&#8221; want to follow.<\/p>\n<p>That is unless twitter decides to return back to its users the option to see all @s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>It looks like Twitter heard some of our pleas and has <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/2009\/05\/we-learned-lot.html\">decided to make a few changes<\/a>.\u00c2 \u00c2  I can understand them needing to be able to get a handle on the amount of traffic they would be pushing if everyone had decided to enable the all replies option, and am happy with their proposed changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter It was about five months ago when I decided to jump into the world of twitter and since then twitter has become for me a sort of proxy for listening and chatting at the &#8220;watercooler&#8221; (at ensemble it was really the coffee maker).\u00c2 \u00c2 I am naturally a sort of internet lurker, tending to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}