{"id":1850,"date":"2009-04-08T08:13:34","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T16:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/?p=1850"},"modified":"2009-04-08T08:14:02","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T16:14:02","slug":"tweeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/08\/tweeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been tweeting.<\/p>\n<p>Avoided it for eons, figuring people were hearing from me enough.\u00c2\u00a0 But I was implored by many to join the ranks, and since you&#8217;ve got to opt in, I&#8217;ve decided to take the plunge.<\/p>\n<p>First I had to reclaim my name.\u00c2\u00a0 There was an impostor under one and a squatter on another.\u00c2\u00a0 But a friend hooked me up with the Twitter people, who gave me back my rights, so I&#8217;m set up.<\/p>\n<p>Was gonna start tweeting in NYC, telling people I was at the Apple Store, but I wasn&#8217;t ready yet.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess this is just justification, letting you know I was planning on using Twitter before Amanda Palmer tracked me down.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m writing this not because of my utilization of Twitter, but what I tweeted about.\u00c2\u00a0 Do you know that Paul McCartney has multiple songs about rain?<\/p>\n<p>Was gonna go hiking with a buddy, but he ultimately decided to pass, because of the rain.\u00c2\u00a0 And when he finally decided to forgo our adventure, after I did my back exercises, just before I was gonna sit down and eat some dinner, I got an urge to hear &quot;Mamunia&quot;, the first song on the second side of &quot;Band On The Run&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>And that led me to &quot;London Town&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>And then I realized Paul had an album entitled &quot;Driving Rain&quot;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Was it conscious?\u00c2\u00a0 Or is it about growing up in England, where the rain is a given?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure, but I&#8217;ve made a playlist in Rhapsody and am listening via my Sonos and the sound is soothing me.<\/p>\n<p>You can check me out on Twitter at: @Lefsetz<\/p>\n<p>______________________________<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Twitter Account NOT Suspended<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ah, technology.<\/p>\n<p>My inbox is stuffed with people who say my Twitter account has been suspended. It has not. The person who hijacked my name, &quot;BobLefsetz&quot;, their account has been suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Let me make this a bit clearer.<\/p>\n<p>If you click on &quot;Find People&quot; at the top of Twitter, and search on &quot;Lefsetz&quot; in the box that comes up, you come up with three accounts, NONE of which are mine.<\/p>\n<p>Forgetting &quot;fakeLefsetz&quot; and &quot;NotLefsetz&quot;, &quot;BobLefsetz&quot; was an impostor and that account has now been suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, where is the real account, the one I&#8217;m tweeting under, &quot;Lefsetz&quot;? I DON&#8217;T KNOW!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve e-mailed my contact at Twitter to let them know of this problem. That the suspended account appears and not the real one.<\/p>\n<p>But, THERE IS A WORKAROUND!<\/p>\n<p>Go to <a title=\"twitter\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\">http:\/\/search.twitter.com<\/a> and type in &quot;Lefsetz&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Then all you have to do is click on any &quot;@lefsetz&quot; listed in the resulting tweets and it will bring you to my real account, &quot;@Lefsetz&quot; and you can click and follow me at this point.<\/p>\n<p>Let the games begin!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been tweeting. Avoided it for eons, figuring people were hearing from me enough.\u00c2\u00a0 But I was implored by many to join the ranks, and since you&#8217;ve got to opt in, I&#8217;ve decided to take the plunge. First I had to reclaim my name.\u00c2\u00a0 There was an impostor under one and a squatter on another.\u00c2\u00a0 But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s96vPs-tweeting","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1862,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions\/1862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}