{"id":6913,"date":"2013-04-09T00:34:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T23:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=6913"},"modified":"2013-04-09T00:34:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T23:34:36","slug":"tweeting-old-blog-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/tweeting-old-blog-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweeting old blog posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aureusbay\/297387489\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/117\/297387489_d9d52e2dcd_m.jpg\" alt=\"archive_w_7295\" width=\"240px\" class=\"size-thumbnail\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aureusbay\/297387489\/\">archive_w_7295<\/a>, a photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aureusbay\/\">Aureusbay<\/a> on Flickr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>Sometimes I write a blog post that I personally think is interesting but which gets almost entirely ignored, probably partly because I announced it on Facebook and Twitter at a time when most people were asleep.<\/p>\n<p>I have now partly solved this problem on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcofprosperity.org\/\">Arc of Prosperity blog<\/a> by installing a WordPress plugin called <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/tweetily-tweet-wordpress-posts-automatically\/\">Tweetily<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tweetily will randomly select a post and tweet it automatically (I&#8217;ve set it to do this every 12 \u00b1 2 hours).<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t sure what the reaction was going to be, but several of my &#8220;from the archives&#8221; posts have been retweeted and traffic has gone up significantly, so I think it&#8217;s been worthwhile in this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I write a blog post that I personally think is interesting but which gets almost entirely ignored, probably partly because I announced it on Facebook and Twitter at a time when most people were asleep. I have now partly solved this problem on my Arc of Prosperity blog by installing a WordPress plugin called Tweetily. Tweetily will randomly select a post and tweet it automatically (I&#8217;ve set it to do this every 12 \u00b1 2 hours). I wasn&#8217;t sure what the reaction was going to be, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,90,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arcofprosperity","category-blogging","category-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}