{"id":2320,"date":"2012-03-05T10:17:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T15:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2320"},"modified":"2012-03-05T10:18:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T15:18:02","slug":"keeping-up-with-the-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2012\/03\/05\/keeping-up-with-the-conversation","title":{"rendered":"Keeping up with the conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I read a re-tweeted <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/MalaysiaForAll\/status\/176623130519937024\">tweet<\/a> by a fellow Malaysian who said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>@etp_roadmap @IdrisJala_ c what I meant u all cant change. U only RT tweets that favors U all but never on negative tweets..learn 2b fair<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is probably true. You can retweet whatever you want. Naturally, you&#8217;ll only retweet things that you find are positive to you (or align with your points of view). This is the thesis behind things like Tumblr and other reblogging platforms.<\/p>\n<p>This is the beauty of Twitter as a conversation medium. You can actually just search for a string. And with the @reply mechanism, you just end up searching for &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/search\/etp_roadmap\">etp_roadmap<\/a>&#8221; and you see heaps of amazing commentary.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, this is not something everyone would do. But with social media you get the <strong>choice<\/strong>. With traditional media, you&#8217;re forced to look at one point of view. Letters that get published don&#8217;t necessarily have to be &#8220;independent&#8221;. Social allows those that are interested to dig deeper. This is true power.<\/p>\n<p>Do the cybertroopers know this? Its easy to figure things out, if you&#8217;re looking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I read a re-tweeted tweet by a fellow Malaysian who said: @etp_roadmap @IdrisJala_ c what I meant u all cant change. U only RT tweets that favors U all but never on negative tweets..learn 2b fair This is probably true. You can retweet whatever you want. Naturally, you&#8217;ll only retweet things that you find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[675,392],"class_list":["post-2320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-social-media","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-Bq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2322,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions\/2322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}