Twitterati Chips On Shoulders
Posted: Tuesday 31 May, 2011
Philip Keightley
So, how come Twitter has become so precious all of a sudden. Seriously, I like using Twitter. It’s fun and can be really useful from both a personal and professional perspective. In fact, I’ll go a step further – it’s bloomin’ brilliant from a professional perspective and can offer brands and businesses an unrivalled platform for broadcast, dialogue and debate with vast and engaged audiences. But my God aren’t the Twitterati (self-proclaimed no less!) a precious bunch.
From Julian Assange to the breaking of the super-injunction it seems that Twitter regards itself as above the law, free to do whatever it wants to do regardless of the cost to others. And then, when it is perhaps floated in some quarters that certain controls should be put in place, the whole Twitterati are up in arms about their right to free speech. Well, I’m not a lawyer, but get over yourselves Twitterati. Stop being so precious and smug. Stop thinking that a #hastag is the greatest comedic invention ever. Try and objectively recognise how wonderful Twitter can be, but that this is not carte blanche to act like a 12 year old princess. Jaysus.
