{"id":2050,"date":"2011-07-28T13:06:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T18:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/articles\/\/"},"modified":"2016-01-26T13:07:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T18:07:20","slug":"in-praise-of-twitter-5-ways-in-which-it-can-help-think-tanks-filter-announce-search-network-and-argue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/articles\/in-praise-of-twitter-5-ways-in-which-it-can-help-think-tanks-filter-announce-search-network-and-argue\/","title":{"rendered":"In praise of Twitter: 5 ways in which it can help think tanks (filter, announce, search, network and argue)"},"content":{"rendered":"
I resisted\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0for over a year. ‘You tw*ts’ was my most frequent comment to the sudden appearance of an ODI twitter account. You cannot possibly communicate an argument in less than 140 characters! Surely, a think tank that pretends to be at the cutting edge of research and policy ought to avoid these new gimmicks. Et cetera.<\/p>\n I still think that an argument cannot be made and communicated in less than 140 characters. At least not the kind of arguments think tanks tend to want to communicate. And I still think that most people on twitter (and online) are probably tw*ts -but then again, most people generally ARE probably tw*ts. After all:\u00a0Mr. and Mrs. Twit\u00a0<\/a>are two ugly, smelly, nasty, stupid people who spend their lives playing nasty tricks on each other.<\/em><\/p>\n However, Twitter can serve very useful purposes -and at a very low-cost.<\/p>\n So far, most think tanks in developing countries do not have twitter accounts; and few researchers have personal ones. I am not suggesting that you should ALL spend MORE time online -(despite the number of posts on this blog, I spend a lot less time online than I used to: most of my posts are planned a week or so in advance and scheduled to be posted on specific dates); but if you are thinking about it, give it a go. And keep those five uses in mind.<\/p>\n (Thank you:\u00a0paulbirch99<\/a>,\u00a0knezovjb<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0nicknet<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I resisted\u00a0Twitter\u00a0for over a year. ‘You tw*ts’ was my most frequent comment to the sudden appearance of an ODI twitter account. You cannot possibly communicate an argument in less than 140 characters! Surely, a think tank that pretends to be at the cutting edge of research and policy ought to avoid these new gimmicks. Et […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[220,193,287],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n