{"id":81,"date":"2008-03-10T23:43:48","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T06:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/03\/twitter-registration\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T14:36:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T18:36:26","slug":"twitter-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/03\/twitter-registration\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter registration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I don’t intend to use Twitter right now (though I agree it is arguably useful\/cool), but I like to claim the username “Wysz” on any service that I might want to use at some point in the future. So I figured I’d go ahead and register it on this microblogging thingamajig. It looked like it would only take a few seconds to register (as it should), but at one screen I was about 10 seconds away from giving up and not registering. Here’s what I saw, an option to check if any of my email contacts were already using Twitter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Enter<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t want to give a third party my email account information, and I didn’t want to spam my friends either. So I clicked ‘continue.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twitter then told me that I missed something:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"You<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ugh. I had noticed in the upper-right a ‘skip’ option, but honestly I clicked ‘continue’ because it was closer to my cursor. And, in my personal opinion, that should have worked. But it didn’t, so I was forced to find my way to the tiny link to get me past this step:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Are<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After that, all I had to do was write my first status update, and that was it. I have enough trouble populating a blog and podcast, but who knows, maybe someday you’ll see constant updates on twitter\/wysz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t intend to use Twitter right now (though I agree it is arguably useful\/cool), but I like to claim the username “Wysz” on any service that I might want to use at some point in the future. So I figured I’d go ahead and register it on this microblogging thingamajig. It looked like it … Continue reading Twitter registration<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3259,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/3259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}