I like Twitter. Well for the most part I like Twitter. Once you overlook all the awful tweets from fans of Justin Bieber / One Direction / Lady Gaga / The Wanted / Jedward etc, what's left is a informative social network which is quite fun to read and interact with.
On a personal level I find Twitter to be quite enjoyable when watching television (mostly reality shows or sport) and I have been known to tweet a lot during episodes of The X Factor (or Celebrity Big Brother which launched last night).
Anyway moving onto the point of this post. Ed Miliband has been on the end of a bit of Twitter stick after he sent out a tweet mourning the death of Bob Holness, who presented the TV show Blockbusters.
Except Ed didn't put Blockbusters. He (clearly accidentally) wrote 'Blackbusters', noticed the error of his ways, then deleted said tweet.
Cue a load of keyboard warriors (y'know, the sort of people who think that superinjunction jokes are 'cool') jumping on the already overloaded "oh look something racist was said, therefore I must be seen to kick off about it" bandwagon that's been doing the rounds in the last couple of weeks.
In case it wasn't already apparent, this is just a bit of a whinge at people who try and suck all the fun out of Twitter. There is now a #EdMilibandGameShows hashtag currently sat in the trending topics, which has some funny (if a little tenuous) suggestions - with my favourite currently being 'Dancing On (Thin) Ice'.
I'd like to think that this all could have been avoided by Ed Miliband sending out a follow-up tweet making light of what is clearly a TYPO, but then I guess somebody at Labour HQ probably advised him to delete and just look a bit stupid for the afternoon, rather than being perceived as racist and stupid. Who knows?
Paul
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