{"id":391,"date":"2009-08-05T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.wpdude.com\/test\/?p=391"},"modified":"2009-08-05T09:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T09:01:00","slug":"is-twitter-spiritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/08\/is-twitter-spiritual\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Twitter Spiritual?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_8vF1TTyV5ww\/SnlMRwOiOAI\/AAAAAAAABoI\/oOcGeqK1Thc\/s1600-h\/spiritual_twitter.jpg\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366404298876008450\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 124px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 93px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_8vF1TTyV5ww\/SnlMRwOiOAI\/AAAAAAAABoI\/oOcGeqK1Thc\/s400\/spiritual_twitter.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">Is Twitter spiritual? <\/span><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephendinan.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/spiritual-meaning-of-twitter.html\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">Blogger Stephein Dinan thinks so&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><em>&#8220;When something is wildly successful, as Twitter now is, I often ask myself about its higher purpose. In other words, what might be the deeper meaning of Twitter?Although I was a Twitter naysayer at first, I\u2019m now convinced that Twitter is part of the spiritual evolution of our species. Its growth corresponds to the accelerating spread of a global consciousness, one in which our sense of boundaries no longer end at national boundaries and we are increasingly in touch with our sense of \u201coneness\u201d with others.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><em>Twitter\u2019s unique format contributes to our growth in a variety of ways:<\/em><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><em>1. Speed of learning <\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>2. Ambient intimacy<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>3. Increased authenticity<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>4. Customized attention networks<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>5. Increased individuality<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>6. Tracking global concerns<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>7. Personal connection to our heroes and heroines&#8221;<\/em><\/div>\n<div>[full description of listed items on origional post]<\/div>\n<div><em>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/em><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><em><strong><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">Twitter So What:<\/span><\/strong> Birdsong IS beautiful<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><\/em> <\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/warkmalsh\">Follow Mark Walsh on Twitter HERE<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Twitter spiritual? Blogger Stephein Dinan thinks so&#8230; &#8220;When something is wildly successful, as Twitter now is, I often ask myself about its higher purpose. In other words, what might be the deeper meaning of Twitter?Although I was a Twitter naysayer at first, I\u2019m now convinced that Twitter is part of the spiritual evolution of our species. Its growth corresponds to the accelerating spread of a global consciousness, one in which our sense of boundaries no longer end at national boundaries and we are increasingly in touch with our sense of \u201coneness\u201d with others. Twitter\u2019s unique format contributes to our <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9xvDN-6j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}