Are you tweeting yet? If not, you probably will be soon. Thanks to the public enthusiasm of several celebrity twitterers, this new mode of communication has suddenly become a national craze. Just as we once rushed to open email accounts or buy mobile phones, now we are signing up to Twitter at a fearsome rate.
One-to-one communication is officially passé. Instead, it is suddenly essential to tell your friends, family, business contacts and even thousands of complete strangers what you are doing or thinking at every hour of the day or night.
TV host Jonathan Ross and actor Stephen Fry are both keen twitterers. They discussed the joys of tweeting (the correct verb, according to a recent discussion on Twitter) on Ross’s recent comeback show, where Ross also recommended it to Hollywood star Tom Cruise, who might just start. Comedian Russell Brand and chef Jamie Oliver have recently signed up. Barack Obama famously tweeted throughout his campaign. John Cleese is a regular. Even Britney Spears is at it. But what exactly is Twitter? And should we care?
February 13, 2009
