{"id":1654,"date":"2016-02-02T13:36:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T05:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/02\/how-the-queensland-police-used-nickelback-to-win-facebook-friends\/"},"modified":"2016-02-02T13:36:17","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T05:36:17","slug":"how-the-queensland-police-used-nickelback-to-win-facebook-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/02\/how-the-queensland-police-used-nickelback-to-win-facebook-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Queensland Police used Nickelback to win Facebook friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Qldpolice\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.2.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAyLzAyL2Y3L3FsZHBvbGljZS5hYzU1ZS5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgk1NzV4MzIzIwplCWpwZw\/144f3134\/4a7\/qldpolice.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=How+the+Queensland+Police+used+Nickelback+to+win+Facebook+friends&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F02%2F02%2Fqueensland-police-the-internet%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F02%2F02%2Fqueensland-police-the-internet%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s Queensland Police Service has <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/10\/21\/australia-police-hoverboard-back-to-the-future\/\">ridden hoverboards<\/a> coupled with an abiding <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/05\/20\/australian-cops\/\">hatred for Canadian rockers Nickelback<\/a> into social media success<\/p>\n<p>The service&#8217;s Facebook page has been liked more than 725,000 times, which is more than any other police service in Australia, and more than the NYPD<\/p>\n<p>Often on point, it has used its following to address the scourge that <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/24\/be-like-bill-annoying\/\">is the &#8220;Be Like Bill&#8221; meme<\/a>, and they&#8217;re as excited about the return of <em>The X-Files<\/em> as the rest of us. Of course, the majority of posts concern public safety information, or appeals for tip-offs regarding local crime or missing persons. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/02\/02\/queensland-police-the-internet\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/facebook\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/twitter\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/social-media\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Social Media<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/australia\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Australia<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/police\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Police<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/iEHVJ_2HvkU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s Queensland Police Service has ridden hoverboards coupled with an abiding hatred for Canadian rockers Nickelback into social media success The service&#8217;s Facebook page has been liked more than 725,000 times, which is more than any other police service in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/02\/how-the-queensland-police-used-nickelback-to-win-facebook-friends\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[728,851,729,783,16],"class_list":["post-1654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-australia","tag-facebook","tag-police","tag-social-media","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}