Twits on Twitter 0
The Guardian offers five steps to being twitterific. A nugget:
Restraint. Thoughtfulness. An ability to stop when the argument is exhausted. All qualities that the dedicated Twitter fighter must strangle inside if they are to succeed. Make Courtney Love your model: the more you can blurt out, the more litigious and the less punctuated it is, the better your form will be. One sign that you’ve really got your bicker on is the “repeated goodnight” tactic, as used by Joey Barton while ranting about Alan Shearer on Match Of The Day. Barton signed off his furious tweets “goodnight”, “sleep well” and “goodnight”, all within an hour, and so demonstrated that he was definitely very calm, very contained and not hovering over his Blackberry gnarled by a fury that could never be relieved no matter how many times he tried to lance his rage-pus with tweets.
Go get your twit on.
Never fear. I shan’t be paying attention.