please empty your brain below

So any twit can start a great rumour, get a worldwide audience for it and people will believe it because everything on the internet is true right? Too scary.

Nailed it there, DG. But the other great thing about Twitter is that you have total control over you follow - and in that respect, you can be rigorous and merciless. I tend to chug along at about 50 followees, which seems to work OK.

The other great thing about Twitter - and I only realised this a couple of days ago - is that there's a "preferences" setting you can control, which means that other people's @replies to people you don't follow get automatically blocked. This comes HIGHLY recommended.

I am friends on Flickr with Barack Obama.

His photos are rubbish though, all political meetings. Not a kitten in sight.

I would have thought that Schofield would Twitter entirely in shouty capitals.

I wonderted why I received a email from my relatively technophobe sister saying that she "wants to keep up with you on Twitter".

I guess she saw the program too.

Why is this any different from, say, Facebook?

There are always tipping points with these social web thingies, a mass influx of noise and then it dies down to a gentle simmer. Partly because the initial 'rush' is over and partly because you, as a user, adjust or filter your usage accordingly.

It's the one thing that always perplexes me when people moan about ALL THIS INFORMATION for, for the most part, you can turn it off if you so wish.

Web 2.0 is OPT-IN ya know.

Precisely

Not just Steven Fry... when the US airwaus jet landed in the Hudson, the first photo from the even got sent round the world via TwitPic.

Than itself became a story (the changing face of media), and in the two days that followed that, twitter had a massive spike in new subscribers.

Jamie Oliver doesn't exist?

Phew.

You what, me old China?

Don't go spreading that rumour on Twatter, you'll get me in a right old two and eight. I'm here and feeling pukka with the Geezer. Sorted.

"I hope that Twitter doesn't evolve into something too vacuous"


Hahahahhaha ah. me - that's a wicked sense of humour you have there, Geezer.

In an ideal world this would break the UK public perverse and sociopathinc dependancy on celeb culture. With the exceptions of messers Fry, Brooker, Wallace, and Gorman, the prospect of following the lives of these cretinous media whores* in 140 character bite sized chunks is bound to jade the most avid of goggle box junkies. Or at least that's what I'd think if Celebrity Big Brother wasn't on it's fifth season.

*Actually they might be really nice people. But that's irrelevant, and so are they.

My twitter use revolutionised when I started using TweetDeck - suddenly I can keep an eye on things of interest, I can respond and retweet simply and quickly... It's become a sort of huge, global conversation as much as micro-blog.

Still working out whether that's a good thing, or just a really large-scale version of pub conversation, where everybody wants to say their thing, and nobody really wants to listen.

The DCLG are on Twitter, I discovered today when I was checking something on their site. Imagine the kind of fun person who follows them!

Since this morning there's a new Jamie Oliver profile, for anyone who's really interested.

And mike, thanks for the hint about being able to turn off irrelevant @-type replies. It doesn't seem to work, but I live in hope.

I'm afraid I was one of your new last-3-days followers DG. Sorry to bring it to the mainstream!

Come on Andrewh, you've been on Twitter for a week, what do you think?

Is this the first day he hasnt commented?

Should I be twittering











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