{"id":442,"date":"2012-06-27T21:45:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T02:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/?p=442"},"modified":"2012-12-05T00:46:06","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T05:46:06","slug":"how-not-to-get-a-new-user","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/2012\/06\/27\/how-not-to-get-a-new-user\/","title":{"rendered":"How not to get a new user"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of an exercise in a course I was taking I was required (or at least strongly encouraged) to create a Twitter account and learn to use it. I figured why not, might as well see what it’s about, maybe there’s something I’m missing. After a few days I decided I wasn’t missing anything and stopped using it.<\/p>\n

Then I get an email from Twitter saying something like “Hey, you haven’t been using Twitter enough, come use it more, it’s great!”. Oh I don’t like being talked down to, especially by a stupid algorithm from a stupid service. So I went back and made sure I clicked the “don’t ever bother me again” checkboxes. Annoying, but what are you going to do, most users are idiots and unfortunately crap like this actually works.<\/p>\n

A few days later – I get another email, almost identical to the first. Now I’m pissed. Now it’s doing things I explicitly asked it not to do, and that’s supposed to attract me? Pfft.<\/p>\n

Now my twitter account is going the same way my Facebook account went – deleted. I don’t even see a reason to ever try it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As part of an exercise in a course I was taking I was required (or at least strongly encouraged) to create a Twitter account and learn to use it. I figured why not, might as well see what it’s about, maybe there’s something I’m missing. After a few days I decided I wasn’t missing anything … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-andrew","4":"post-442","6":"format-standard","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}