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The Twitter Effect

Steven Fry, actor, writer, humourist and gadget nerd of this parish, tweeted this morning with a link to http://www.iPhorest.com/. The website gives details of a forthcoming iPhone app that plants a virtual tree on the phone and a real tree by way of The Conservation Fund, in areas where the natural habitat is vulnerable.

 A fine idea. Unfortunately such is Mr Fry's following on Twitter the iphorest website buckled under the strain and within minutes the server had cried enough and fallen over.

 In another tweet a few minutes later he mentioned the online petition to Save Bletchley Park, http://savingbletchleypark.org/. The number of petition signatures immediately started to rise.
The previous evening he was kept amused by fellow twitterers while stuck in a lift in a London high rise.

 TV presenter Phillip Schofield, unable to get to the studios on Monday due to the snow, kept his followers amused with his accounts of playing with the kids in the snow, complete with the occasional photo.

 All this has added to the interest in Twitter by the mainstream media, and anyone vaguely tech is being asked to comment in the press and on TV and radio. A family friend who works at the BBC and tweets for the Working Lunch show is frequently asked to assist other programs with things Twitter, and was interviewed by a local radio station about it. The BBC's media correspondents are in demand all over the network to talk about social networking. And increasing numbers of other "celebrities", correspondents and journalists are tweeting their daily lives.

 What are you doing, in 140 characters or less has certainly captured the imagination of millions. But there are still many more millions who 'just don't get it'.
The feeling among many Twitterers is that's ok. At the moment it's good fun, not really taken too seriously, although it has it's serious uses. News stories have been broken on Twitter, including the very first image of the airliner floating on the Hudson River.
But if the unwashed masses start steaming in we may have to find another playground.

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