Are you in danger of being left behind? You probably have a facebook page or even a website but you just can’t get the Twitter Thing? Well that doesn’t make you a bit of a donkey. I was on Twitter, ONCE.

I signed up early on, barely knowing what I was doing. I was delighted with myself – my own twitter account – I could now follow people and if I was lucky maybe people would start following me… (God help us all! – as Nana Mac might say). So just after opening my account – I was about to shut down my computer and head off to bed – but I said I’d have one quick look to see if there was anyone following me yet. I couldn’t believe my eyes, there it was,  a request from a would be follower. Accept – and away we go. What a lunatic, this person with a wooly hat on, from Hull no less, was telling me what they did for the last few hours – who they met and what they ate and drank and was hoping that I was as excited about Hull City’s football match next Saturday as they were. And all this in the last 5 minutes… Right there, I ended my tweeting career – with one keystroke – I forget which one it was – maybe DELETE?. That person is probably now Dan Boyle following.

Now you can Tweet without the lunatics… only give one of these, to people you know won’t hassle you. And yeah, there’s room for 140 characters, I counted the little letter spaces.

(Apologies to all Donkeys. I love donkeys – I have a friend who has 2 lovely donkeys. ‘The Donkey’s Ears’ pub in Cork was lovely in its day. I ‘m definitely going to post a ‘homage’ to all the lovely donkeys in the next few days.)