{"id":230204,"date":"2010-01-26T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5456875"},"modified":"2010-01-26T00:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T05:20:00","slug":"how-many-is-too-many-twitter-followers-social-networking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/230204","title":{"rendered":"How Many Is Too Many Twitter Followers? [Social Networking]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/st_thompson_f.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/500x_st_thompson_f.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s not really a problem for me, with my single-digit Twitter following, but anecdotal evidence shows that once a <a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #socialnetworking\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/socialnetworking\/\">social networking<\/a> community gets too big, the back-and-forth that created it evaporates. What I&#8217;m saying is, Ashton Kutcher is very lonely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2010\/01\/st_thompson_obscurity\/\">A Wired editorial<\/a> defends the idea of online obscurity, that those smaller groups and their casual sense of community have something that should be admired and retained. Once a group gets too big, members fade into the background, not wanting to speak in front of such a large audience, and in the case of Twitter, the person being followed becomes larger than life. It&#8217;s an interesting idea&mdash;should we be more vigilant in protecting the small groups of which we&#8217;re a part? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2010\/01\/st_thompson_obscurity\/\">Wired<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=8480409fd28ed62db73668d0a6ab77ab&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=8480409fd28ed62db73668d0a6ab77ab&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=ivPO7OUzwjA:S1U4gbS6J2o:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=ivPO7OUzwjA:S1U4gbS6J2o:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=ivPO7OUzwjA:S1U4gbS6J2o:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=ivPO7OUzwjA:S1U4gbS6J2o:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=ivPO7OUzwjA:S1U4gbS6J2o:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=ivPO7OUzwjA:S1U4gbS6J2o:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/ivPO7OUzwjA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not really a problem for me, with my single-digit Twitter following, but anecdotal evidence shows that once a social networking community gets too big, the back-and-forth that created it evaporates. What I&#8217;m saying is, Ashton Kutcher is very lonely. A Wired editorial defends the idea of online obscurity, that those smaller groups and their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1551,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}