{"id":50,"date":"2009-11-24T20:57:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T03:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2009-11-24T20:57:24","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T03:57:24","slug":"twitter-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/24\/twitter-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I knew it wouldn&#8217;t be long before <a href=http:\/\/us.cnn.com\/2009\/TECH\/11\/24\/twitter.ads\/index.html>this happened<\/a>: &#8220;[Advertisers] are offering to pay Twitterers to gain access to their followers &#8212; so they can send them tweets containing ads. The more followers you have, the more money you make.&#8221; If I were ever tempted to get on Twitter before, this turns me off completely. No thanks, I won&#8217;t follow people and get spammed by their advertising associates just so those people can make money off of me. As with public radio before, now we&#8217;ll need a new class of non-commercial Twitter accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew it wouldn&#8217;t be long before this happened: &#8220;[Advertisers] are offering to pay Twitterers to gain access to their followers &#8212; so they can send them tweets containing ads. The more followers you have, the more money you make.&#8221; If I were ever tempted to get on Twitter before, this turns me off completely. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faithandtechnology.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}