Not a one has heard of Twitter.

Uh-huh. I remember asking Mark about this in the cupboard at the time. Who’s using our hashtags, I said. Well, he said, I am. And? Alex is. And? Will is. And? This obscure little PR company is.

Right.

I don’t think you can be surprised that Voicers – including geek Voicers – are puzzled by our strange insistence that this is a massively important growth area. At the moment, it’s still wishful thinking and in-jokes.

There’s (as yet) nothing qualitatively new about Twitter. It hasn’t changed the way news is put together or the way media coverage of us is tilted. It just provides another outlet of reaction to journalists. At the moment we still get our blog posts picked up by MSM outlets far more often than our (or anybody else’s) tweets. I suspect that’s the basic truth sceptics and luddites are sensing, even if they don’t articulate it.

If you want to text lots of people at the same time, use a phone. Or use Twitter because it would take less time. D’you see?

Just because *you* can’t see something’s value doesn’t mean that it doesn’t *have* value.

If you want to text someone, use a phone

If you want to change your status update, use facebook.

I took one look at Twitter, realised it was pointless, but of course it’s impossible to delete my account.

What the heck are “hashtags” ? Who cares?

(If you can untangle the negatives and I haven’t got confused myself!)

Hashtag. (n) type of guinea pig found mainly in the countryside around Lima, in Peru, characterised by its snub nose, long hind legs and disproportionately large testes, which Darwin believed were responsible for the disparity behind the hind and front legs. The testes are a delicacy in a tiny number of local villages whose residents twitter on endlessly about the quality of the meat.