{"id":192,"date":"2007-10-09T20:34:58","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T20:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=192"},"modified":"2007-10-09T20:34:59","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T20:34:59","slug":"we-need-a-personal-twitter-glossary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"We need a personal Twitter glossary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.elsua.net\/\">Luis Suarez<\/a> said on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/\">Twitter<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/elsua\/statuses\/311564892\">last week<\/a> got me thinking. I <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dalelane\/statuses\/311585192\">tweeted back<\/a> at the time, but thought the idea was worth fleshing out.<\/p>\n<p>We need a Twitter glossary. My tweets stand a chance of making sense to people who know me, or have been following me for a while, but to anyone else? Perhaps not. But with only 140 characters, I haven&#8217;t got the space to put everything in context in every tweet. <\/p>\n<p>What I want is an up-front way of defining a list of terms that I am likely to use often in the future. For each term, I could give a definition &#8211; a description that could be used in a tool-tip when you hover over the word in a tweet, and\/or a URL to a page with more info if you click on it. <\/p>\n<p>For example, instead of a tweet like:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gotta take Grace with me to a SYA meeting tonight<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>it might be useful if the tweet showed up on the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/\">twitter webpage<\/a> like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gotta take <a style=\"color: black\" href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.co.uk\/dale.lane\" title=\"my three year old daughter\">Grace<\/a> with me to a <a style=\"color: black\" title=\"Solent Youth Action - a charity that I am a trustee of\" href=\"http:\/\/www.solentyouthaction.org.uk\/\">SYA<\/a> meeting tonight<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something Luis Suarez said on Twitter last week got me thinking. I tweeted back at the time, but thought the idea was worth fleshing out. We need a Twitter glossary. My tweets stand a chance of making sense to people who know me, or have been following me for a while, but to anyone else? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}