{"id":3980,"date":"2011-07-11T21:48:15","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T20:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=3980"},"modified":"2011-07-11T21:53:21","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T20:53:21","slug":"when-is-a-million-twitter-apps-not-really-a-million-twitter-apps-when-theyre-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/07\/when-is-a-million-twitter-apps-not-really-a-million-twitter-apps-when-theyre-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"When are a million Twitter apps not really a million Twitter apps?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Twitter has <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/2011\/07\/one-million-registered-twitter-apps.html\">one million registered applications<\/a>? Okay, let&#8217;s have a list.<\/p>\n<p>And when this list (which I doubt we&#8217;ll ever see) comes out, we can find out how many of them are honest to goodness apps, and how many are workarounds for blog plug-ins so posts like this one can be auto-tweeted. Given each blog needs to be registered as an application in plug-ins like <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/twitter-tools\/\">Twitter Tools<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wordpress.com\/stats\/\">WordPress has just announced they have over 50 million blogs<\/a> (and around 25 million of them are personally hosted versions), I&#8217;ll take <em>Twitter&#8217;s Million<\/em> with not just a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techmeme.com\/110711\/p36#a110711p36\">grain of salt<\/a>, but a big industrial bag of the white stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Twitter has one million registered applications? Okay, let&#8217;s have a list. And when this list (which I doubt we&#8217;ll ever see) comes out, we can find out how many of them are honest to goodness apps, and how many are workarounds for blog plug-ins so posts like this one can be auto-tweeted. Given each blog needs to be registered as an application in plug-ins like Twitter Tools, and WordPress has just announced they have over 50 million blogs (and around 25 million of them are personally hosted versions), I&#8217;ll take Twitter&#8217;s Million with not just a grain of salt,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,685],"tags":[2608,2609,2610,87,76],"class_list":["post-3980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-twitter-web-20","tag-million-apps","tag-plug-in","tag-sceptic","tag-twitter","tag-wordpress","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-12c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}