{"id":381,"date":"2008-10-04T14:38:59","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T22:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/04\/open-letter-to-my-twitter-friends\/"},"modified":"2008-10-11T13:38:51","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T21:38:51","slug":"open-letter-to-my-twitter-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/04\/open-letter-to-my-twitter-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter to my Twitter Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Twitter Friend,<\/p>\n<p>I follow you because I know you and want to keep up with what&#8217;s going on in your life. I&#8217;m glad you&#8217;re on Twitter (especially if you joined in response to my arm-twisting). I have a problem, though. My friends&#8217; tweets are getting to be too much for me to keep up with, and I need your help.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong><u>Please be judicious in your use of the @ reply.<\/u><\/strong> So many times, I see tweets like &#8220;@username yeah, me too!&#8221; which are of no interest to me or anyone other than the person you&#8217;re addressing. <strong>A direct (d) message is a much better choice for most messages addressed to a single person.<\/strong> If you&#8217;re going to write an @ message, please include enough context and\/or information to make it interesting to all your followers. I beg you.<\/p>\n<p>My only other option is to un-follow you, and I&#8217;d really hate to do that.<\/p>\n<p>Many Thanks,<br \/>\nKate<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\np.s. I&#8217;m aware that I have the option to globally turn off all @ messages that are addressed to someone I don&#8217;t follow. But many of my friends use the @ message properly and have interesting tweets that are @ someone I don&#8217;t know. I don&#8217;t want to miss those.<\/p>\n<p>p.p.s.\u00a0 Here are some good principles for writing an @ message:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>include the link when you refer to a website<\/li>\n<li>explicitly mention the subject you&#8217;re tweeting about<\/li>\n<li>write complete sentences that could stand alone (without me having to read the tweet you&#8217;re responding to)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>UPDATE: The debate about this post continues in the comments below&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Twitter Friend, I follow you because I know you and want to keep up with what&#8217;s going on in your life. I&#8217;m glad you&#8217;re on Twitter (especially if you joined in response to my arm-twisting). I have a problem, though. My friends&#8217; tweets are getting to be too much for me to keep up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relationships","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}