{"id":2872,"date":"2025-01-16T16:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T16:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/?p=2872"},"modified":"2025-01-16T16:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T16:23:06","slug":"our-new-x-twitter-account-and-youtube-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/16\/our-new-x-twitter-account-and-youtube-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"Our new X (Twitter) account and YouTube channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reluctant for a long time on the social media front, as I&#8217;ve been always loath to sensationalise crime data. We also have had quite a lot of media coverage without even trying over the years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/Media\/\">some of which is listed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But I have come belatedly to realise that social media is an essential part of communication and outreach. And it&#8217;s about creating a tribe if you will, who have the same common interests. I look forward to learning a lot as it builds over the next year.<\/p>\n<p>So our X account is <span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">@UkcrimestatsCom which is here https:\/\/x.com\/UkcrimestatsCom .\u00a0<\/span> I&#8217;ve just done a few posts chasing different Police Forces for missing data.<\/p>\n<p>And YouTube is here https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ukcrimestats2730 . YouTube I will be primarily using for demonstrating how the software works. People actually absorb information much better by vision than by reading. And YouTube has become a kind of new global encyclopaedia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reluctant for a long time on the social media front, as I&#8217;ve been always loath to sensationalise crime data. We also have had quite a lot of media coverage without even trying over the years, some of which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/16\/our-new-x-twitter-account-and-youtube-channel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2873,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions\/2873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}