{"id":118654,"date":"2019-11-12T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/11\/12\/general-election-the-independent-politics-social-stream-the-twitter-accounts-worth-following\/"},"modified":"2019-11-12T13:16:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T12:16:00","slug":"general-election-the-independent-politics-social-stream-the-twitter-accounts-worth-following","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=118654","title":{"rendered":"General election: The Independent Politics Social Stream &#8211; the Twitter accounts worth following"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trolling, abuse, misinformation, bots \u2013 welcome to Twitter during a general election. And yet, despite all that, there are valuable live news updates, on-the-ground snippets of valuable information, good arguments being thrashed out. Yes, Twitter makes a huge contribution to public discourse in politics \u2013 if only you could avoid all the other stuff.<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/general-election-news-feed-live-twitter-boris-johnson-corbyn-swinson-latest-a9187786.html\" target=\"_blank\">General election: The Independent Politics Social Stream &#8211; the Twitter accounts worth following<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trolling, abuse, misinformation, bots \u2013 welcome to Twitter during a general election. And yet, despite all that, there are valuable live news updates, on-the-ground snippets of valuable information, good arguments being thrashed out. Yes, Twitter makes a huge contribution to public discourse in politics \u2013 if only you could avoid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}