Why has Twittering suddenly become fashionable? Sir Compton was reading in Private Eye the other day that even Mr Thirsty* is at it - "making porridge for the children". So fucking what? That man should be doing porridge.
Sir Compton's friend Dr Glynn, being in the vanguard of all this technology stuff, could no doubt provide enlightenment on its purpose. But simply blasting streams of consciousness or mundane details of existence into the ether seems pretty pointless. Almost as pointless as blogging, indeed.
Maybe it is something to do with constantly diminishing attention spans.
*William Lewis, chief twitterer of the Faily Mailygraph.
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I fear that Sir Compton over-estimates my powers of explanation. Twitter is an acquired taste - used as a communication tool to help satiate those of us with seemingly insatiable curiosities about one another’s' doings; as a question-asking tool, hoping that one of your myriad followers has the answer to No.14 in the pub quiz that's got you stumped; as a marketing tool unashamedly pointing others in the direction of your latest wheeze or offering; as a tool of high enigma, replying @someone directly, in suitably opaque terms, so as to leave all your other followers mystified...and, of course, to try to prostitute yourself sufficiently to persuade Stephen Fry to add you to his 'following list' [no, he hasn't. - Ed.]
ReplyDeleteThere's probably a VIPTweet service for the landed gentry and others with similar gravitas - you should look into it. Iain Dale and Dolly Draper presumably know the ropes...well, Iain Dale at any rate. When you're signed up you can follow me and give me a leg up, so to speak.
i like the idea of getting answers in a pub quiz but don't think it's going to change the world in the way that blogging has. a useful application, not a crucial one. think it's probably not for me.
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