{"id":6681,"date":"2010-10-17T14:15:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T19:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=6681"},"modified":"2011-08-30T13:30:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T19:30:22","slug":"97-hours-without-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/97-hours-without-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"97 hours without Twitter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"345\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3o2WnXJxgL4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This morning I was checking in on Twitter and realized I&#8217;ve posted 19,998 Tweets since I joined Twitter in October 2007.<\/p>\n<p>I posed <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/jdblundell\/status\/27651228214\">the question<\/a>&#8230; does this make me an oversharer?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6682\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6682\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/19998-tweets-300x187.gif\" alt=\"19,999th tweet\" title=\"19,999th tweet\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6682\" srcset=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/19998-tweets-300x187.gif 300w, http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/19998-tweets-500x312.gif 500w, http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/19998-tweets.gif 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">19,999th tweet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To which my brother-in-law posed the response&#8230; go on a tweet holiday and use the 20,000 to announce the birth! Unless you&#8217;ve already passed it by now!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6683\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6683\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/twitter-challenge-300x187.gif\" alt=\"Twitter challenge\" title=\"Twitter challenge\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6683\" srcset=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/twitter-challenge-300x187.gif 300w, http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/twitter-challenge-500x312.gif 500w, http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/twitter-challenge.gif 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twitter challenge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sounds like a reasonable enough challenge&#8230; 97 hours or so without Twitter (well at least without posting to my main Twitter account <span class=\"twitshort\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/jdblundell\" target=\"_blank\">@jdblundell<\/a><\/span> :-))<\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;ll see if I can do it. <\/p>\n<p>Granted my biggest worry is the various online accounts that automatically post to Twitter for me (probably one of the reasons I&#8217;ve reached 19,999 tweets). I <em>think<\/em> I&#8217;ve disabled all the connections, but we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, Twitter&#8217;s started using <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.twitter.com\/pages\/oauth_faq\">OAauth<\/a>, so hopefully I&#8217;ve disconnected all these services (check <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/settings\/connections\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/settings\/connections<\/a>) to see what sites\/applications have rights to your Twitter account).<\/p>\n<p>So there you have it&#8230; no Twitter for 97 hours&#8230; but I&#8217;m betting that may lead to more blog posts, video updates and posts to Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>And for those of you who don&#8217;t have Twitter&#8230; you can still get the big announcement via a SMS text message.<\/p>\n<p>Simply send a text with the following message to 40404:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>follow jdblundell<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You&#8217;ll likely get a response asking for a username. Simply pick a random username, send it as a reply to the same account and you&#8217;ll get the big announcement as a text message on your phone.<\/p>\n<p>And in case you didn&#8217;t know&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I also tweet from <span class=\"twitshort\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/sbpodcast\" target=\"_blank\">@sbpodcast<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"twitshort\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/welivesimply\" target=\"_blank\">@welivesimply<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"twitshort\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/orangenoise\" target=\"_blank\">@orangenoise<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"twitshort\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/stpetersbrew\" target=\"_blank\">@stpetersbrew<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"twitshort\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/blundybabies\" target=\"_blank\">@blundybabies<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"twitshort\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/travisranch\" target=\"_blank\">@travisranch<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m probably an oversharer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I was checking in on Twitter and realized I&#8217;ve posted 19,998 Tweets since I joined Twitter in October 2007. I posed the question&#8230; does this make me an oversharer? To which my brother-in-law posed the response&#8230; go on a tweet holiday and use the 20,000 to announce the birth! 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