{"id":2614,"date":"2010-12-15T08:45:09","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T16:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/?p=2614"},"modified":"2015-09-30T18:59:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T18:59:36","slug":"the-twitter-user-you-dont-want-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/the-twitter-user-you-dont-want-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"The Twitter User You Don&#039;t Want To Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/badtwitter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2616\" title=\"badtwitter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/badtwitter.jpg\" alt=\"Don't Become this Twitter User\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a>Don&#8217;t become this Twitter user, <a title=\"Don't Become this Twitter User\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/stoneteam1\" target=\"_blank\">@stoneteam1<\/a>. Upon a casual inspection you might think this profile looks great. They have a photo, they have a bio, they have a website, their follower to following ratio is good, they have a lot of tweets and they are listed nearly 700 times.<\/p>\n<p>I am not going to follow them for two reasons.<\/p>\n<p>1. Look at their tweets. All of them are nearly identical. They are all pushing something called The Trump Network. If every post is nearly identical this is a spam account. If you look at when they are posted you can see it is some sort of automated post. You are not going to gain anything following this account.<\/p>\n<p>2. I don&#8217;t see any discussions with their over 61,000 followers.\u00a0 61,000 people are following them and they don&#8217;t have one thing to say. This is a one way Twitter account about selling their product and there is no real person behind it. They don&#8217;t care about engaging with their followers.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t become this Twitter follower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t become this Twitter user, @stoneteam1. Upon a casual inspection you might think this profile looks great. They have a photo, they have a bio, they have a website, their follower to following ratio is good, they have a lot of tweets and they are listed nearly 700 times. I am not going to follow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[526,141],"class_list":["post-2614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","tag-spam","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11758,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions\/11758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}