{"id":10761,"date":"2009-12-08T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T09:22:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-12-08T11:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T09:22:00","slug":"google-ceo-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/10761-google-ceo-on-twitter.html","title":{"rendered":"Google CEO on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Schmidt is &#8220;tweeting&#8221; under the handle @ericschmidt, a Twitter spokesperson said in a Twitter message on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Google&#8217;s CEO&#8217;s account was activated on December 1.<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt has sent two &#8220;tweets&#8221;, one of which was a link to an opinion piece he wrote last week in The Wall Street Journal, and has amassed nearly 7 500 followers in less than a week.<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt made his disparaging remark about Twitter at the Morgan Stanley Technology conference in San Francisco in March but quickly backed away from the description in later comments, saying: &#8220;We admire Twitter&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We think Twitter did a very good job of exposing a whole new way to communicate,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter&#8217;s potential as a real-time search engine has sparked recurring bouts of speculation that Google may be interested in buying the company.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter, which allows users to pepper one another with messages of 140 characters or less, has seen a dizzying surge in popularity since it was launched in August 2006.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, who took some flak earlier this year for calling Twitter a &quot;poor man&#039;s email system&quot;, has joined the hot micro-blogging service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}