{"id":1523,"date":"2009-05-25T11:36:48","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T19:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2009-05-25T11:36:48","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T19:36:48","slug":"belated-kudos-to-cnn-and-congrats-to-imajes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=1523","title":{"rendered":"Belated kudos to CNN and congrats to imajes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After so much the well-deserved criticism of companies that reward their fans and customers with legal hassles, it&#8217;s good to see an example of a company that did the right thing.  About a month ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2009\/04\/15\/confirmed-cnn-acquires-cnnbrk-twitter-account\/\">CNN acquired the Twitter account that posted CNN breaking headlines and hired <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/imajes\">James Cox<\/a>, who had created the feed as a personal project, as a consultant.  The Twitter feed, which James had originally set up to run headlines to his cellphone, was pushing a million followers. It might be within CNN&#8217;s legal rights to yank the name and kill the project &#8211; instead they realized that James set up a valuable service, so they took it over and are rewarding James for his good work that benefited CNN.   Great example of loving your lead customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After so much the well-deserved criticism of companies that reward their fans and customers with legal hassles, it&#8217;s good to see an example of a company that did the right thing. About a month ago, CNN acquired the Twitter account that posted CNN breaking headlines and hired James Cox, who had created the feed as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=1523\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Belated kudos to CNN and congrats to imajes&#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-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-oz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523","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=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1524,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}