{"id":1316,"date":"2009-03-03T07:45:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T15:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2009-03-03T08:22:08","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T16:22:08","slug":"why-ive-been-private-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=1316","title":{"rendered":"Why I&#8217;ve been private on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just decloaked <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/alevin\">@alevin<\/a> for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialtext.com\/products\/signals.php\">Socialtext Signals launch<\/a>, with ambivalence.  There are two main reasons I was private.  I tweet about trivia sometimes &#8212; farmers market visits, workouts, misadventures with car repair.  I know that&#8217;s supposed to be sympathetic and human and &#8220;good for the personal brand&#8221; but darn it, I&#8217;m an introvert.  I feel much more comfortable sharing trivia with people who know me, even a little, and who have chosen to pay attention.  And I hate spammers and MLM scum with a passion. I hate to think they get whuffie by following me.   <\/p>\n<p>But public tweeting makes it easier to participate in the public conversation, so here goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just decloaked @alevin for the Socialtext Signals launch, with ambivalence. There are two main reasons I was private. I tweet about trivia sometimes &#8212; farmers market visits, workouts, misadventures with car repair. I know that&#8217;s supposed to be sympathetic and human and &#8220;good for the personal brand&#8221; but darn it, I&#8217;m an introvert. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=1316\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why I&#8217;ve been private on Twitter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_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":[],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-le","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1318,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions\/1318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}