Today the Birmingham Post published a rather silly article about social media. Interestingly while it was mainly about Facebook the title was John Lamb: Banalities of Twitter. Soon enough the Twitter-using folk of Birmingham picked up on this and piled into the comments making it the Post’s biggest story of the day according to the editor. That alone is interesting (is traffic to the Post’s site so low that a few hundred hits from the likes of us can tip the balance?) but it was the phenomena that really got me. And since it’s complex and nuanced I decided it would best be explained with a couple of captioned photos.
M’fellow traveler Chris Unitt used the first one in his riposte which was nice but they really were supposed to be read as a pair, so here they are.
Yes, they’re not that funny. Yes, I can do better. That’s why they’re on this blog rather than ASH-10 proper.