{"id":593,"date":"2013-03-04T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithcchan.com\/?p=593"},"modified":"2013-10-29T16:25:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T21:25:54","slug":"did-you-know-keeley-has-her-own-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/did-you-know-keeley-has-her-own-twitter.html","title":{"rendered":"Did You Know Keeley Has Her Own Twitter?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m sure you’ve noticed my Twitter feed in the upper-right corner of this page. “Why do you use Twitter?” people ask me. I do it because oftentimes I want to say something but there are just too few words for a whole blog post. So I make it a sentence and still get it out there. Up until recently my Twitter feed was connected to my Facebook status so whatever gets posted in the former goes to the latter. I recently unhooked them, which effectively cuts my postings by half (I felt I was posting too much!). <\/p>\n

I digress. The point of this post is to direct you to the Keeley comics page<\/a>. Now look to the right: hey, that’s not my Twitter! It’s actually Keeley’s Twitter, hiding in plain sight. I started it way back in March 2009 (!!!) but I wasn’t fully committed to it until 2010 when I was inspired by Marvel writer Paul Tobin<\/a>‘s Twitter for the character Anya Corazon<\/a>*. Tobin innovatively integrated her tweets<\/a> into the actual paper comic, so the fictional tweets (used in the place of thought balloons) appeared in real life on the day of publication<\/a>! Ara\u00c3\u00b1a stopped tweeting with the cancellation of the comic, which is sad because it was really good. That was the Golden Age of college-age female protagonists with Anya Corazon<\/a>, Young Allies<\/em><\/a>, and Stephanie Brown Batgirl<\/a> getting their own books. *wistful sigh*<\/p>\n

Keeley’s Twitter feed started out as the usual thing with posts about cats and the weather, but it’s grown into a kind of laboratory for storytelling. I’ve had a few ‘episodes’ where Keeley describes a coherent series events happening from start to finish. They’re not even all about fighting crime: Valentine’s Day had a sweet little story about Keeley and her husband (it’s well within scrolling distance if you want to look<\/a>). She also participates in hashtaggery, giving profound character insight that don’t really fit in her comic.<\/p>\n

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Keeley lacks followers, though. I’ve told a few Midmococoers <\/a>about it over time and they’ve followed her like the good friends they are. I am a little perplexed by how few strangers follower her. She doesn’t even have robots subscribing to her! So, yes the gist of this post is that you should subscribe to a fictional character’s Twitter feed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

*Sidenote: Keeley’s goggles? Ripped off of Anyas’ Ara\u00c3\u00b1a<\/a> costume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m sure you’ve noticed my Twitter feed in the upper-right corner of this page. “Why do you use Twitter?” people ask me. I do it because oftentimes I want to say something but there are just too few words for a whole blog post. So I make it a sentence… Read more“Did You Know Keeley Has Her Own Twitter?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[18],"tags":[180,12,152],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}