{"id":506,"date":"2009-02-09T00:48:47","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T00:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brendanmitchell.wordpress.com\/?p=506"},"modified":"2009-02-09T00:48:47","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T00:48:47","slug":"the-dalai-lama-on-twitter-nope-just-a-case-of-brand-jacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":"The Dalai Lama on Twitter&#8230; Nope, just a case of Brand Jacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Within 24hrs of announcing his <a title=\"Dalai Lama\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ohhd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter account<\/a>, the Dalai Lama has amassed 13,450 followers&#8230; Surely that must have set a new Twitter record!<\/p>\n<p>Why choose Twitter: &#8220;<em><span class=\"status-body\"><span class=\"entry-content\">His Holiness thought it was prudent to make his office open and assessable to a more youth and technologically advancing audience.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/em><span class=\"status-body\"><span class=\"entry-content\"> So now there really is no excuses for anyone saying they can&#8217;t be bothered or don&#8217;t get Twitter!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"status-body\"><strong><span class=\"entry-content\">BUT AU CONTRAIRE:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"entry-content\"><strong> <\/strong>This is a fake profile that was pulled by Twitter yesterday, click <a title=\"tech news at Yahoo\" href=\"http:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/news\/afp\/20090209\/tc_afp\/usitinternettwitterindiatibetdalai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> for more info. Reminds me of the Exxon Mobil Corp Branding Jacking case I wrote about in my <a title=\"You Don't Know Jack\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/2008\/08\/11\/you-dont-know-jack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You Don&#8217;t Know Jack<\/a> post. All the more reason for the Dalia Lama to have an<a title=\"ID Gator, The Identity Aggregator for all\" href=\"http:\/\/www.idgator.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> ID Gator<\/a> account!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within 24hrs of announcing his Twitter account, the Dalai Lama has amassed 13,450 followers&#8230; Surely that must have set a new Twitter record! Why choose Twitter: &#8220;His Holiness thought it was prudent to make his office open and assessable to a more youth and technologically advancing audience.&#8221; So now there really is no excuses for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[10,152,14,8,153,17,18,19],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brands-marketing","tag-brand-jacking","tag-dalai-lama","tag-identity","tag-inspiration","tag-religion","tag-social-media","tag-twitter","tag-web-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}