{"id":5789,"date":"2013-04-22T17:42:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T16:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/?p=5789"},"modified":"2013-04-22T23:05:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T22:05:01","slug":"jordan-okeefe-twitter-followers-boost-after-niall-horan-from-one-direction-gave-him-his-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/5789\/jordan-okeefe-twitter-followers-boost-after-niall-horan-from-one-direction-gave-him-his-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan O\u2019Keefe received Twitter followers boost after Niall Horan from One Direction gave him his support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s Got Talent\u2019s Jordan O\u2019Keefe had a pleasant surprise at the weekend when he received a surge in Twitter followers after One Direction\u2019s Niall Horan tweeted his support for the BGT singer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/files\/2013\/04\/jordanokeefe-britainsgottalent.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/files\/2013\/04\/jordanokeefe-britainsgottalent.png\" alt=\"jordan okeefe britains got talent\" title=\"jordan okeefe britains got talent\" width=\"438\" height=\"362\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5750\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/files\/2013\/04\/jordanokeefe-britainsgottalent.png 438w, http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/files\/2013\/04\/jordanokeefe-britainsgottalent-300x247.png 300w, http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/files\/2013\/04\/jordanokeefe-britainsgottalent-423x350.png 423w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Keefe whose audition was broadcast on Saturday night, was one of the stand-out acts on the night that left the judges thrilled with excitement after his performance of the One Direction&#8217;s hit \u201cLittle Things\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The 18 year-old form Northern Ireland wowed the panel with his version of the song and it prompted Simon Cowell to tell the singer:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI absolutely loved it. I thought that was a very very, very clever version of the song. It would have been easy to just have done a straight copy. I think you\u2019re a great performer, you look great\u00a0and I predict very, very good things for you going forward. I like you.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, his performance also caught the eye of One Direction\u2019s Niall Horan who previously met O\u2019Keefe at The X Factor auditions in 2010.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/files\/2013\/04\/niallhoran-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/files\/2013\/04\/niallhoran-1.jpg\" alt=\"niall horan twitter followers\" title=\"niall horan twitter followers\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5791\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/files\/2013\/04\/niallhoran-1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/files\/2013\/04\/niallhoran-1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/files\/2013\/04\/niallhoran-1-525x350.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Horan took to Twitter to praise his old posting:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cjordan o\u2019keefe from bgt last night\u2026first of all thanks for doin little things bro! and thats a serious you\u2019ve got on ya bro!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jordan replied:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c@NiallOfficial No problem dude, it was a pleasure. Thanks man I really appreciate that. Try and get the rest of the lads to tweet if u can\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018That would be amazing.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The tweets resulted in a surge of followers for the BGT Irish singer who we will see competing in the live semi-finals next month.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* bgt *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"9452887434\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><br \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/5789\/jordan-okeefe-twitter-followers-boost-after-niall-horan-from-one-direction-gave-him-his-support\/\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 1805371;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s Got Talent\u2019s Jordan O\u2019Keefe had a pleasant surprise at the weekend when he received a surge in Twitter followers after One Direction\u2019s Niall Horan tweeted his support for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 1805371;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/files\/2013\/04\/niallhoran-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5789"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5795,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789\/revisions\/5795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}