Indeed, its promotion has been helped in no small part by a number of celebrities championing its use wherever they go. The latest celeb Chris Moyles, Radio 1 breakfast show DJ performed live on air a kind of love-twitter-triangle feature with fellow twitterers Philip Schofield and Andy Peters.
So what is Twitter? I've had a go and the best way to describe it is a status messenger, that just takes Facebook's status update feature into a much simpler and minimalist format. I can see why it's popular with celebrities as they can very quickly promote themselves to their legions of fans with minimal effort.
I think it's a rather charming little program, especially compared to the bloated and slothenly Facebook. Another great feature is that you can send updates via your mobile with SMS texts free of charge (you just pay your network's standard charge) making the whole concept much more meaningful, providing you are doing something interesting of course!
"Following your favourite celebrities" sounds vulgar, but surprisingly very entertaining when put into practice. In fact reading Stephen Fry's mini-crisis about buying a manbag from the airport yesterday and getting derided by his followers was hilarious as was Alan Carr's advice not to brave the snow as he 'did a Todd Carty in front of Londis'. You could almost say top-drawer entertainment, well for the office.
Actually, celebrity-following is pretty much all I can do until I get some followers of my own as I have had trouble convincing friends to have a look. I would advise you to throw away your preconceptions and just try it for a few days - for the sake of in-office entertainment.
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