{"id":1142,"date":"2008-01-15T16:13:07","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T22:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2008\/01\/15\/twitter-tip-try-not-to-be-so-obvious-about-link-whoring\/"},"modified":"2008-01-15T16:13:07","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T22:13:07","slug":"twitter-tip-try-not-to-be-so-obvious-about-link-whoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2008\/01\/15\/twitter-tip-try-not-to-be-so-obvious-about-link-whoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Tip: Try not to be so obvious about link whoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pic\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cote\/2196174418\/\" title=\"Twitterrific by cote, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2300\/2196174418_72a50cdb4a_o.jpg\" width=\"323\" height=\"650\" alt=\"Twitterrific\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hey, I link-whore in (on?) Twitter all the time. That&#8217;s part of the point. But, it&#8217;s at least good to put a title in your link whores and try to space it out rather than carpet bombing it. I put up with the carpet bombing from news update feeds like <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/googlenews\">Google News<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ZDNetBlogs\">ZDNet<\/a> &#8211; but I&#8217;d rather they spaced them out.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to all the Twitter cross-posting sites, things are not so good, as the above screenshot shows. Compare the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dishola\">dishola updates<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Scobleizer\">Scoble<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Qik Live Video&#8221; ones.<\/p>\n<p>To that point, the video sites seem particularly rude when it comes to this. Dear developers of Twitter cross-posting crap: could we at least get some titles in there? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blip.tv\">blip.tv<\/a> does this well enough. That&#8217;s really all I&#8217;m asking for, some additional text with that link whoring. Bare links suck.<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/twitter\" rel=\"tag\">twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, I link-whore in (on?) Twitter all the time. That&#8217;s part of the point. But, it&#8217;s at least good to put a title in your link whores and try to space it out rather than carpet bombing it. I put up with the carpet bombing from news update feeds like Google News and ZDNet &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}