{"id":1127,"date":"2009-06-22T16:28:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T20:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2009-06-22T16:31:32","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T20:31:32","slug":"twitter-patter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/?p=1127","title":{"rendered":"Twitter patter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Paul Adams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In its Sunday edition, the New York Times had the best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/21\/weekinreview\/21cohenweb.html?scp=2&amp;sq=twitter&amp;st=cse\">explainer<\/a> I have seen of the special significance Twitter has had in the recent events in Iran. I would still appreciate a more granular technical explanation of why it is more difficult for a government to block Twitter than, say Facebook, but this story at least alludes to the basic difference between Twitter and other social networks, or old-fashioned email for that matter. It also puts Twitter&#8217;s journalistic usefulness in perspective.<\/p>\n<p>The article is worth the substantially more than 140 words the NYT devoted to the topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Adams In its Sunday edition, the New York Times had the best explainer I have seen of the special significance Twitter has had in the recent events in Iran. I would still appreciate a more granular technical explanation of why it is more difficult for a government to block Twitter than, say Facebook, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-media-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1133,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions\/1133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}