BWW people on Twitter?

This feels a bit like the internet equivalent of scribbling messages on the walls of public toilets, but anyway...

Are any of you lot on Twitter? Well, I know a few of you are - I've been registered for ages and follow plenty of people but hardly ever tweet anything - not helped by the fact that Twitter rather unhelpfully blanked my account a few months ago, but mainly because I'm also in the rather sad situation where NONE of my real-world friends are on Twitter. (They think it's a waste of time, and they're probably right, but that's not really the point!) I'm @3rdspearcarrier just in case anyone's interested.

I am, unsurprisingly, @Weez.

The best time for Twitter was in the run-up to the general election; mostly it does just feel like standing in a street and shouting non-sequiturs at the passers-by, but with all the campaigning and the news stories and the blogposts and the articles, it felt more like a beehive, except instead of mindless drones, we were organised workers, passionate about the information and determined to let the rest of the swarm know what was going on. It was pretty cool. :3

Even post-election, it's still a great way to keep abreast of the news. People tweet about current affairs FAR quicker than reporters can comment; it's better than a rolling news feed! Although you will eventually get to a point where you assume everybody on the trending list is a trend because they have died (which is disappointing when it turns out the likes of Gillian McKeith are alive and well), and if Twitter crashes, you'll be straight to BBC News to check there hasn't been another 9/11 bringing the Twitterverse to its knees.

I'm not so interested in non-political current affairs (unless an excuse to diss Kay Burley arises), so these days I'm reduced to tweeting my thoughts about plays I see on my own (so, like, most of 'em XD) and occasionally getting REALLY EXCITED about ukuleles and banjos. It's fun though, and a nice snappy way to keep in touch with fellow Tweeple. :3

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Updated On: 7/15/10 at 05:17 PM

I LOVE Twitter. I panicked when they blocked it at work, however they seem to have allowed it once more. I do enjoy it. There are some real people on there that I know, but I can't help but feel a bit special when I get a Tweet from a semi-celeb.

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