{"id":4858,"date":"2008-11-14T10:08:48","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T09:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=4858"},"modified":"2008-11-14T10:11:17","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T09:11:17","slug":"rinf-alternative-news-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/contributions\/rinf-alternative-news-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"RINF Alternative News on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t have a Twitter account yet you&#8217;re missing out.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter is\u00a0great for following news reports and community discussion, the benefit for RINF visitors is that it allows you to track the most recent site updates (aswell as updates from other sites too) all in one place. I use it myself for catching the latest headlines from a variety of news sites. It&#8217;s <em>very<\/em> easy to use.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can sign up for one here <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/signup\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #990000;\"><strong>https:\/\/twitter.com\/signup<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The main RINF newswire Twitter\u00a0page is <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rinf_news\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #990000;\"><strong>http:\/\/twitter.com\/rinf_news<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The RINF open publishing Twitter page is <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rinf_community\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #990000;\"><strong>http:\/\/twitter.com\/rinf_community<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To see all updates across the RINF web site start following both on Twitter. There&#8217;s also a number of other radical \/alternative\u00a0news sites using Twitter, so you can get all your\u00a0latest headlines in one place.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twitter\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Twitter has been used as a &#8220;social justice tool&#8221; to connect groups of people in critical situations. On April 10 2008, James Buck, a graduate journalism student at UC Berkeley, and his translator, Mohammed Maree, were arrested in Egypt for photographing an anti-government protest. On his way to the police station, Buck used his mobile phone to send the message \u201cArrested\u201d to his 48 &#8220;followers&#8221; on Twitter. Those contacted UC Berkeley, the US Embassy in Cairo and a number of press organizations on his behalf. While being detained, Buck was able to send updates about his condition to his &#8220;followers&#8221;. As a result of the message and the efforts of his Twitter friends, he was released the next day from the Mahalla jail after the college hired a lawyer for him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a webmaster I would also recommend using Twitter\u00a0to help get your message to a wider audience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/signup\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.pricegrabber.co.uk\/gottahave\/files\/2008\/08\/twitter-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"118\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t have a Twitter account yet you&#8217;re missing out. Twitter is\u00a0great for following news reports and community discussion, the benefit for RINF visitors is that it allows you to track the most recent site updates (aswell as updates from other sites too) all in one place. I use it myself for catching the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-contributions"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}