What’s the most beautiful thing about Twitter? Where were you when Stephen Fry got stuck in a lift? It’s unbelievable, but we are now more than a decade into the Twitter era. Just this past Sunday (3 February 2019), Stephen Fry tweeted that it was a decade to the day since his moment of elevator […]
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My 10th #Twitterversary toast to Twitter
A toast to Twitter! To mark the occasion of my 10th Twitterversary on Thursday 17 January 2019, here are five things I love about Twitter.
The cheerful man’s a king
Gentle reader: What, for you, is the greatest of all virtues? I am a great believer in serendipity. It seems serendipitous in the extreme that over the past week I have chanced upon not one but two examples of impeccable gents celebrating the virtue of cheerfulness. Mightily heroic “In the face of adversity, cheerful people […]
Twitterversary time: The seven year Twitch?
When’s your Twitterversary? If you tweet, what has your time a-tweeting meant to you? Is it a love thing? And is it possible to tire of the conversation that never sleeps? The seven year itch describes a moment seven years into long-term relationships when cracks start to appear. In terms of my Twitter life, what […]
Of Twitter, tweet-ups and introversion
Twitter, it is my contention, is a perfect communications medium for the card-carrying introvert. But what happens when the Twitter world and the real world cross over? Gentle reader, have you ever had the words taken right out of your mouth? I am a card-carrying introvert. Speaking to other people, the words sometimes don’t come […]