{"id":1364,"date":"2008-09-27T14:19:29","date_gmt":"2008-09-27T19:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2008-09-27T14:19:29","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T19:19:29","slug":"twittermoms-the-friendliest-site-on-the-interwebs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/09\/27\/twittermoms-the-friendliest-site-on-the-interwebs\/","title":{"rendered":"Twittermoms:  the friendliest site on the interwebs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned recently, I&#8217;ve been spending a lot of time on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/DaniGirl\">Twitter<\/a>.  Microblogging (you&#8217;re limited to a paltry 140 characters) appeals to where I am right now&#8230; only one thought at a time need be expressed, without editorializing or rambling.  It&#8217;s kind of refreshing.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter must have been featured at the latest BlogHer or something, because all of a sudden this summer all my favourite mom bloggers showed up on Twitter, and that was cool, too.<\/p>\n<p>Any site with the raging popularity of Twitter has plenty of people lining up with add-on features and clone sites.  This morning, I stumbled upon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twittermoms.com\">TwitterMoms<\/a>, a social networking site for moms who tweet on Twitter.  I noticed that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/09\/19\/twittermoms-shows-moms-care-too\/\">TechCrunch<\/a> had a post up about them, and I&#8217;m a sucker for signing up for new toys, so I joined and took about three minutes to poke around.  I&#8217;d hardly taken a boo at the front page when Lucas ran out of Cheerios and I left the computer to get on with my morning.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a good chance that I would have likely forgotten completely about the site by now, like so many of the sites I&#8217;ve signed up for in the last year or so. (I&#8217;m an irrepressible joiner, and I especially love to join things when they&#8217;re new.) We went out, ran a few errands, and when we got home I popped on the computer to check my e-mail&#8230; and found my inbox full of messages from Twittermoms.  In just a couple of hours, I had half a dozen welcome notes written on my &#8220;wall&#8221; and four friend requests.  Yikes!  Real messages, too, not just computer-generated ones.  It&#8217;s a little bit scary, actually.   I guess I&#8217;m used to the old days on the bulletin boards, when you had to hang around and prove yourself before you started making friends.  I&#8217;ve never seen people come running out of the woodwork to say hello before.<\/p>\n<p>I feel kind of bad accepting those &#8220;friend&#8221; requests, even if they are from complete strangers.  But considering my bloglines account is practically bulging at the seams and my Facebook status hasn&#8217;t been updated in a month or more, I don&#8217;t know when I&#8217;ll next get around to TwitterMoms again.  If you&#8217;re looking for a new place to hang around, they&#8217;re certainly a friendly crew over there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned recently, I&#8217;ve been spending a lot of time on Twitter. Microblogging (you&#8217;re limited to a paltry 140 characters) appeals to where I am right now&#8230; only one thought at a time need be expressed, without editorializing or rambling. It&#8217;s kind of refreshing. Twitter must have been featured at the latest BlogHer or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/09\/27\/twittermoms-the-friendliest-site-on-the-interwebs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Twittermoms:  the friendliest site on the interwebs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}