{"id":2223,"date":"2009-02-23T14:40:47","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T20:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/02\/23\/karl-rove-is-following-me-on-twitter\/"},"modified":"2009-02-23T14:40:47","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T20:40:47","slug":"karl-rove-is-following-me-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/23\/karl-rove-is-following-me-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl Rove is Following Me on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I got <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmcarroll\">a Twitter account<\/a>.  Part of my continuing plan to take over all forms of modern social media.  And besides, if I am struck by a deep thought while sitting in an airport waiting for a delayed flight, don&#8217;t you deserve to know about it right away?  Of course you do.<\/p>\n<p>And emails like this make it all worthwhile:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi, Sean Carroll (seanmcarroll).<\/p>\n<p>Karl Rove (KarlRove) is now following your updates on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Check out Karl Rove&#8217;s profile here:<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/KarlRove\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/KarlRove<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Best,<br \/>\nTwitter<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now if I could get <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/THE_REAL_SHAQ\">Shaq<\/a> to follow me, I&#8217;d hit the big time.<\/p>\n<p>(Note that Rove has 13,373 followers, and is himself following 13,369 feeds.  Clearly there are four Twitterers out there who really pissed him off.)<\/p>\n<p>p.s.  I am a lagging indicator, so if you&#8217;re not <em>already<\/em> using Twitter, you are hopelessly backwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I got a Twitter account. Part of my continuing plan to take over all forms of modern social media. And besides, if I am struck by a deep thought while sitting in an airport waiting for a delayed flight, don&#8217;t you deserve to know about it right away? Of course you do. And emails [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}