{"id":884,"date":"2009-04-29T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/Ok-I-caved-Im-on-Twitter.aspx"},"modified":"2017-04-13T11:40:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T18:40:33","slug":"ok-i-caved-im-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/ok-i-caved-im-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Ok, I caved &#8211; I&#8217;m on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">After being mercilessly pressurized by many people (and I blame Jason Massie the most), I&#39;ve joined Twitter and I&#39;ll be commenting lots on it. Why did I finally cave? Well, I&#39;ve been seeing lots of little things in forums and newsgroups that don&#39;t merit a full blog post but are worth letting people know about. So &#8211; feel free to follow along. My username is &#39;PaulRandal&#39; &#8211; original, huh? I&#39;m sure I&#39;ll get just as sucked into Twitter as I have to FaceBook &#8211; luckily I can type fast :-)<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Enjoy!<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font size=\"2\">PS You might not find me in Twitter search until I&#39;ve posted a few times &#8211; try <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/search\">http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being mercilessly pressurized by many people (and I blame Jason Massie the most), I&#39;ve joined Twitter and I&#39;ll be commenting lots on it. Why did I finally cave? Well, I&#39;ve been seeing lots of little things in forums and newsgroups that don&#39;t merit a full blog post but are worth letting people know about. 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