{"id":10327,"date":"2011-06-27T04:30:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T08:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=10327"},"modified":"2011-06-27T04:43:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T08:43:21","slug":"jhuber-head-of-local-at-google-needs-tweeting-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/27\/jhuber-head-of-local-at-google-needs-tweeting-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"@JHuber &#8211; Head Of Local at Google, Needs Tweeting Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you that may have forgotten, Jeff Huber is new <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/08\/where-does-local-fit-into-the-newly-organized-google-under-page\/\">Head Of Local And Commerce at Google<\/a>. Jeff is one of the top five folks at Google, having been appointed to the post in the reorg of early April when Larry Page took over. He is in charge of Places, Offers, Maps, &#038; Boost to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>I am sure he is a busy guy but he seems totally (or is it intentionally?) clueless about Twitter and his recent experiment there seems to reinforce that point. Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/jhuber\/status\/84751374167982080\">tweet<\/a> that he sent out Saturday night at 6:30 EST:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Screen-shot-2011-06-26-at-7.47.06-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10328\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-06-26 at 7.47.06 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Screen-shot-2011-06-26-at-7.47.06-AM-520x248.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Screen-shot-2011-06-26-at-7.47.06-AM-520x248.png 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Screen-shot-2011-06-26-at-7.47.06-AM-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Screen-shot-2011-06-26-at-7.47.06-AM.png 565w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/jhuber\/status\/82190095238709249\">part one<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/jhuber\/status\/82190154093170688\">part two<\/a> of his &#8220;experiment&#8221; upon reaching 10,000 followers on Twitter:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Screen-shot-2011-06-26-at-7.49.16-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10332\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-06-26 at 7.49.16 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Screen-shot-2011-06-26-at-7.49.16-AM-520x182.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Screen-shot-2011-06-26-at-7.49.16-AM-520x182.png 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Screen-shot-2011-06-26-at-7.49.16-AM-300x105.png 300w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Screen-shot-2011-06-26-at-7.49.16-AM.png 522w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since his appointment to the head of Local on April 8 he has <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/jhuber\">tweeted<\/a> a total of 20 times (17 &#8220;original&#8221; and 3 Rts). Here is a typical tweet from one of the folks in the world that is probably more influential over our lives in Local than God:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Screen-shot-2011-06-26-at-7.49.32-AM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10329\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-06-26 at 7.49.32 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Screen-shot-2011-06-26-at-7.49.32-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Screen-shot-2011-06-26-at-7.49.32-AM.png 515w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Screen-shot-2011-06-26-at-7.49.32-AM-300x56.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am traveling  but I have a huge favor to ask of you all. Send <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/jhuber\">@jhuber<\/a> a woot, woot tweet today and let him know what you would like to hear about local from Google. I am sure that you can think of something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you that may have forgotten, Jeff Huber is new Head Of Local And Commerce at Google. Jeff is one of the top five folks at Google, having been appointed to the post in the reorg of early April when Larry Page took over. He is in charge of Places, Offers, Maps, &#038; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10327"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10342,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10327\/revisions\/10342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}