{"id":374,"date":"2009-06-29T16:00:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T21:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=374"},"modified":"2010-06-16T08:26:22","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T13:26:22","slug":"twitter-history-twhistory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2009\/06\/29\/twitter-history-twhistory\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter + History = TwHistory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twhistory.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right\" src=\"http:\/\/img3.imageshack.us\/img3\/623\/twhistory1246308976502.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Twitter is the latest craze on the internet and its reach already extends across countless aspects of society, from news reports to celebrity gossip. It is only natural that the 140-character phenomenon would extend into the historical realm with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twhistory.com\" target=\"_blank\">TwHistory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>TwHistory is using the Twitter niche to tell history&#8217;s stories in a new and interesting way. As a tool, the team behind TwHistory argues that Twitter can be used to tell individual stories in a day-by-day format. Their current project is the Battle of Gettysburg and individuals currently &#8220;tweeting&#8221; include <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pres_Lincoln\" target=\"_blank\">Abraham Lincoln<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/gen_meade\" target=\"_blank\">George Meade<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gen_Alexander\" target=\"_blank\">Edward P. Alexander<\/a>. TwHistory is still a work in progress and is always looking for more volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>A free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> account is required to view TwHistory&#8217;s publications and while you are at it don&#8217;t forget to use the service to follow the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/House_divided\" target=\"_blank\">House Divided project<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter is the latest craze on the internet and its reach already extends across countless aspects of society, from news reports to celebrity gossip. It is only natural that the 140-character phenomenon would extend into the historical realm with TwHistory. TwHistory is using the Twitter niche to tell history&#8217;s stories in a new and interesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,81],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-recent-news","tag-battles-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1858,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/1858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}