{"id":122556,"date":"2014-03-31T12:03:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T12:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=122556"},"modified":"2014-03-31T12:03:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T12:03:11","slug":"10-reasons-why-people-follow-brands-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=122556","title":{"rendered":"10 reasons why people follow brands on twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mediabistro.com\/alltwitter\/files\/2014\/03\/why-follow-brands-twitter.jpg?resize=563%2C938\" width=\"563\" height=\"938\" \/><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/alltwitter\/why-follow-brands-twitter_b56005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mediabistro <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"tumblr-crosspostr-linkback\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=50097\" title=\"Go to the original post.\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">10 reasons why people follow brands on twitter<\/a> was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Curious Brain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via mediabistro 10 reasons why people follow brands on twitter was originally published on The Curious Brain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[467,360],"class_list":["post-122556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-other-stuff","tag-info-graphic","tag-social-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":143060,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=143060","url_meta":{"origin":122556,"position":0},"title":"Brands  Missing the Mark in 2024! 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