The Sun opens Liverpool Twitter channel
The Sun has open a Liverpool Twitter account. Not such a big deal? Maybe to the people of a city accused of the most hideous lies imaginable by the paper after Hillsborough.
The Sun has open a Liverpool Twitter account. Not such a big deal? Maybe to the people of a city accused of the most hideous lies imaginable by the paper after Hillsborough.
I spend a fair amount of time on Twitter, for reasons I’ve explained elsewhere. Simply put it’s an amazing tool for connecting with interesting people, and it’s invaluable from a professional point-of-view, a hotline straight through to valuable marketers, PRs and journalists.
So, once in a while, I turn up to Twitter meet-ups to put faces to names, names to handles and handles to faces. That’s a lot of information to juggle in your head while making small-talk with someone you’ve never met before, but I like a challenge.
There are probably a hundred articles about how Twitter is a fertile breeding ground for spammers, scammers, paedophiles, swingers, socialists and Jonathan Ross. I haven’t experienced any of these but received quite a shock when Noel Edmonds started following me.
A mash-up of data from the River Mersey presented as a Twitter feed, displaying data on the comings and goings in the Mersey’s shipping channels. I’m at a loss to explain why this is interesting.