{"id":155004,"date":"2015-09-27T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T06:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=155004"},"modified":"2015-09-26T15:36:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T15:36:28","slug":"why-twitter-is-going-to-the-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=155004","title":{"rendered":"Why Twitter is going to the polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"article-content\">As you may have noticed this week, Twitter has started experimenting with a new feature that allows users to poll their followers.<\/p>\n<p>But if you haven&#8217;t seen the feature enabled on your account, it&#8217;s probably because you&#8217;re not one of the select Twitter employees or verified accounts deemed important enough to try it out.<\/p>\n<p>The polls are a native feature \u2014 meaning the polls are embedded directly into the tweets, rather than use Twitter Cards, which lets you attach rich photos, media and videos. It&#8217;s available on the mobile and desktop versions of Twitter, but it won&#8217;t be available on third-party apps like Tweetdeck.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"microcontent-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"microcontent-shares\" data-description=\"\" data-fragment=\"m!2cc2\" data-image=\"http:\/\/rack.2.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE1LzA5LzI1LzA5L1NjcmVlblNob3QyLjdhMjFmLnBuZwpwCXRodW1iCTEyMDB4OTYwMD4\/b07cc3bc\/059\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-25-at-4.23.47-PM.png\" data-url=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Poll Screenshot\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.2.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE1LzA5LzI1LzA5L1NjcmVlblNob3QyLjdhMjFmLnBuZwpwCXRodW1iCTEyMDB4OTYwMD4\/b07cc3bc\/059\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-25-at-4.23.47-PM.png\" alt=\"Twitter Poll Screenshot\" width=\"474\" height=\"318\" data-credit-link=\"\" data-credit-name=\"\" data-credit-label=\"\" data-credit-provider=\"Custom type\" data-caption=\"\" data-width=\"636\" data-fragment=\"m!2cc2\" data-image=\"http:\/\/rack.2.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE1LzA5LzI1LzA5L1NjcmVlblNob3QyLjdhMjFmLnBuZwpwCXRodW1iCTEyMDB4OTYwMD4\/b07cc3bc\/059\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-25-at-4.23.47-PM.png\" data-micro=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"image-credit\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The poll option appears next to the media and location buttons under the text box you use to write a tweet. You&#8217;re limited to two answer options, and there&#8217;s a 24-hour time limit before voting closes.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear whether the feature will be available to the rest of the Twitterverse. But that hasn&#8217;t stopped some wags from making their own polls anyway.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Mashable<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have noticed this week, Twitter has started experimenting with a new feature that allows users to poll their followers. But if you haven&#8217;t seen the feature enabled on your account, it&#8217;s probably because you&#8217;re not one of the select Twitter employees or verified accounts deemed important enough to try it out. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":155005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-155004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-akwasi-osei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/155005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}