{"id":15,"date":"2009-04-08T14:11:58","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T18:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/?p=15"},"modified":"2009-06-07T14:13:12","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T18:13:12","slug":"ten-reasons-your-company-shouldnt-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/2009\/04\/08\/ten-reasons-your-company-shouldnt-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten reasons your company shouldn&#8217;t tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend sent this along. <a href=\"http:\/\/adage.com\/digitalnext\/article?article_id=135827\">Top 10 Reasons Your Company Probably Shouldn&#8217;t Tweet<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I continue to suspect that Twitter is over-rated &#8212; almost certainly for most businesses, and possibly just plain over-rated. I don&#8217;t see how it adds much to life. <\/p>\n<p>If you want to keep in touch with Friends, Facebook is better. If you want content, a blog is better. If you want people to know that you just ate a sandwich, you need to get over yourself. <\/p>\n<p>I can see how Twitter would be good for giving people instant updates on an event, like a conference. But &#8230; why? Why can&#8217;t I read it tomorrow on your blog? <\/p>\n<p>Also, is there anybody I can follow on Twitter who is constantly going to every conference I care about (and who won&#8217;t tell me about his dog and his lunch)? <\/p>\n<p>You can write short posts on a blog if you like, or long ones (which you can&#8217;t do on Twitter.) <\/p>\n<p>Via RSS feeds (which any blogging software will provide) you can get blog posts a number of ways. Maybe not on your cell phone, but &#8230; if not, then soon. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the Big New Thing, but I don&#8217;t think it will last. Other, more robust applications (like Facebook) will figure out how to deliver whatever small benefit Twitter offers, and Twitter will go away. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend sent this along. Top 10 Reasons Your Company Probably Shouldn&#8217;t Tweet I continue to suspect that Twitter is over-rated &#8212; almost certainly for most businesses, and possibly just plain over-rated. I don&#8217;t see how it adds much to life. If you want to keep in touch with Friends, Facebook is better. If you &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/2009\/04\/08\/ten-reasons-your-company-shouldnt-tweet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Ten reasons your company shouldn&#8217;t tweet&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}