{"id":1784,"date":"2009-02-19T00:03:11","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T23:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2009\/02\/19\/stephen-fry-goes-nuclear\/"},"modified":"2009-02-19T00:03:11","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T23:03:11","slug":"stephen-fry-goes-nuclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=1784","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Fry goes nuclear."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Followcost is a great little application which works out the cost of following celebrities on Twitter. Here is the cost of following <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/stephenfry\">@stephenfry<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/follow-cost-is-stephenfry-worth-the-pain.jpg\" alt=\"\" height=\"280\" width=\"494\"><br \/>It strikes me that celebrities are caught in a cleft stick, someone as popular as <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000410\/\" title=\"Stephen Fry\" rel=\"imdb\">Stephen Fry<\/a> has over 208,000 followers(The old Radio Luxenbourg radio frequency for us nerds \ud83d\ude42 and is in turn following&nbsp; over 54,000 folks. This means that he can only respond to a minuscule portion of tweets without seriously overloading everyone&#8217;s twitter timeline and yet folks moan at him for not responding! <\/p>\n<p>Think I will stick to just following a few folks that I&nbsp; know well \ud83d\ude42 even with that I had to silence <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/scobleizer\">@scobleizer<\/a> with his 22 updates a day!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/02\/16\/social-atoms-and-the-twitter-ecosystem\/\">Gigaom<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Followcost is a great little application which works out the cost of following celebrities on Twitter. Here is the cost of following @stephenfry It strikes me that celebrities are caught in a cleft stick, someone as popular as Stephen Fry has over 208,000 followers(The old Radio Luxenbourg radio frequency for us nerds \ud83d\ude42 and is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[115,357,367,392],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-products","tag-celebrity","tag-social-networking","tag-stephen-fry","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}