Tw-update

I am just as bad as everyone else - just found myself replying to Ewan MacGregor on Twitter, a realitve newcomer - OK he was asking for people to follow. I can see how it happens now!!

And sadly, just came on the net to see if the lost Skier, Rob Williams had been found, he has been, but sadly too late. My thoughts are with his family and friends.

Twit-ter Whoo!

Everyone, it seems has gone bonkers for Twitter now. First it was MySpace, then Facebook and now Twitter. Thankfully I can hold my head up high and know I signed up ages ago. I came across Twitter at the same time as Facebook and liked the idea of it only being like Status Updates. A quick and easy way of just keeping in touch with anyone who cared to listen.

But lately, everyone has been jumping on the bandwagon and having their Twit-turn. That's great, because the more the merrier. I too have now joined the followers of @stephenfry, @rustyrockets, @wossy, @iainlee, @schofe - all prolific celeb twitters and all making me laugh with their one line wonders.

But it seems to me that one trend seems to be emerging with certain followers. You see a one line tweet and click to see what the thread was, only to find that the follower is obsessed with replying to celebs and trying to entice them into replying back.

Of course, yes, following someone as hilarious as @wossy or @stephenfry, you want to join in the fun, want to say your piece and it WOULD make your day if they commented back.

But reading through some people's Twitter pages, this seems to be their only reason for living. Constant, endless replies to people ... and it becomes obvious that they are the celebrity Twitcher; watching celebritities and trying to say something clever or inane enough to illicit a response.

Sad, really.

And yet, for the people who scoff at Twitter and can't see its point (and yet are still obsessed with updating their Facebook status daily) - the story of the skiers in Verbier who got lost and separated from each other whilst out on the slopes, where one of them has been saved by a combination of i-phone, Twitter and Google maps, well, somehow it makes the addiction all worth while. I just hope the other lost skier is found.

And so, I am now off to tweet this blog, as all good Twitterers should do!!