Dear Colleagues
Please see below a link to some good advice from Grant Shapps about how to get the best out of Twitter.
For those in doubt, the best advice is to maybe avoid it altogether.
Enjoy the recess,
Stephen Crabb MP
Assistant Government Whip
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Tom Harris bemoans the public’s attitude to politicians…
“Mr Oborne echoes the lazy, anti-politics whine we hear so often these days, all based on the absurd notion that politicians were once loved and only fell out of public favour during the expenses scandal. He should take a walk to the Strangers’ Bar. But not to sup with the patrons he seems to despise so much, dearie me, no; he should instead look at the paintings on the corridor outside the bar, which depict the devastating fire which consumed most of the Palace in 1834. And he should reflect on the fact that on that dramatic night, as the Commons went up in flames, a crowd gathered on the South Bank to clap and cheer.”
” Evans, dear boy, Evans “
Twitter is great !
Twitter ye not !
I luv twitter, and am not baned from using my proper monkier on it – you can follow me if you lick
What happened to “what Heidi did next” – was it career ending rather than idle gossip?
Perhaps it was bollocks.
daft twat…….. barking up the wrong tree, you must be a mackem ?
I was thinking of inventing new craze called Titter – where women can circulate pictures of their breasts to anyone who was interested.
I’d sign up for that.
ooh yeth pleeth. It woud be thimply breaththtaking..
Can’t see the point/s.
Nor can I. If I opened a Twitter account and started tweeting, you would all laugh at me for being unable to spell or put a grammatical sentence together.
I’m thinking of inventing a new craze called Shitter.
Tits oot
Shit’s oot for the ladz
That is disgusting !! You must be Chris Bryant and I claim my monetary prize !
Heid i Article?
P.S. Anthropomorphic Climate Stasis!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/08/glaciers-mountains?intcmp=122
some are alright on twitter ans some just show that they are idiots.
Just wish they would all say what they think and not what they are told to think/say.
Just a thought.
Am sure someone blogged a while ago that twitter would be a flash in the pan, I might have even read it on this blog Guido?
Help?
The same idiots who said Google was a bubble probably.
I heard there is some kind of secret trial going on today in Liverpool which the thoughtpolice have instructed the press not to talk about since we are all supposed to have accepted the enriching of our society…
Anyone got the details?
I preach love.
i wear rucksack
I come in pieces.
Yeah wees givna trial tae a bunch o kids reedy fa next seeson
Fail – I could understand that – whereas real Kenny is completely incomprehensible
…and so are Gerrard and Carragher, plus something over half the managers and so called ‘pundits’.
Would this be the Asian gang of child abusers that the BBC are desperate to cover up? Just like they covered up evidence against Jimmy Savile and Holly Greig’s abuse and the Abuse on the Isle of Jersey and loads of other cases too.
47 muzzies raped and groomed white girls.
Being kept quiet in the cause of harmony.
Google liverpool 47 muslim
Google liverpool 47 muslims
Dunblame and those kids were all swept under the carpet. A future UN sec was involved.
47 enrichments on trial re the usual – under age sex etc. News ban in force, radio and newspapers. Mustn’t let the brits know what is being done in their country.
How can there be a news ban? Has someone got a superinjunction?
Followers of the Prophet Saville (PBUH)? Did he shag a 9 year old girl? Cos I know a prophet who did.
Blimey you must both be nearly 1500 years old then!
You just got to know how to use it productively and not get distracted from the.. look at dem whitey ho bitches wid their ugly kid slags..message you want to send.
‘Sky News would be proud!’
Aunty meanwhile, seems to be running around like a headless chicken.
Even inspired a ‘what we mean is’ additional bit:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2012/02/twitter_guidelines_for_bbc_jou.html
Funny though.
BBC evolution….less and less content…more and more propaganda
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Yes they do.
Was that an off-the-cuff remark ?
does this apply to football managers?
Never tweet in anger… why don’t you all just fuck off the lot of you, boring cu*nts.
Twot? Twet twut, twat twit
twic, twyc, twoc ?
“enjoy the recess”
Gits.
Wot I did in my holidays.
I’m going to Switzerland. Snow’s terrific.
What are you voters doing during the holiday? You do get the same holidays allowance don’t you?
Barely suppressed grimace.
I am an assured tweeter
Bill Oddie.
Basically, don’t be the bloke that put the “Twit” in “Twitter.” Got it in one.
To many tweets make an @ed_miliband
Greece has upposedly agreed its austerity deal ? Mr Draghi feels that there are tentative signs and , substantial risk has been lowered a little .euro Banks with poor balance sheets are in a better position than 6 months ago . The interesting thing about what Mr Draghi said was when he got onto each economy standing up on its own ……… I just thought hold on a mo dont you get that if you have individual currencies ?? alas no journo asked that one.
He also pointed out he was none too keen on any political fixing , that interfer with the needs of fixing the actual problem . They have same problem in lending to SME . Of course everyone wants confidence , no doubt if you stabilise a debt and deficet , even a a truly massive one , you can call it a tentative sign of stabilisation .
More savvy journos were asking the technical numbers questions on bonds . from where I sit , there is just a bit of gap on what is being said and what is actually happening , but an interesting start on this somewhat more detailed round of the story , now which cup is the pea under ??
OK it really doesn’t matter what austerity deal the Greeks say they have agreed, so far they have not enforced anything and just who is going to enforce this latest deal?
Time will reveal noone will enforce it – just another ruse to excuse shovelling more billions down the Grecian black hole.
More austerity measures means more strikes means more loans means more austerity means more strikes means more loans.
A ponzi scheme is a ponzi scheme no matter what attempt at gloss is put on it…
The Greek crisis is being dealt with what’s described as a troika.
To me a troika conjures up repression during Stalin’s regime when dissenters
were convicted without trial.
To me a troika conjures up a picture of a sleigh being pulled by two white horses through 6 feet of snow.
Hopefully Labour MPs will read this and take heed. Their twitter feeds are frankly awful.
But a great source of entertainment for those of us watching politics from the outside. dianeabbott, chuckourmoney, tonybliar (yesterday) sarah wife of gordon even bullyballs are very amusing occasionally on twitter , albeit unintentionally,
+1
What does he mean ‘enjoy the recess’? They’re not having another break are they?. They have more holidays than they do work!!
It’s something to be grateful for. Think of the harm they do when they are at work.
Maybe we should give them 52 weeks of recess a year. It would be cheaper in the long run than all the disastrous legislation they pass.
‘Sincethe medium is largely anonymous people will write in 140 characters what they’d neverdream of saying to your face’
Call me, Grant, and I’ll say that you’re a Hunt to your face.
It’s much harder to molest these days!
“how’s about that, then?”
Didn’t you used to be called Troonite, you fucking idiot?
oops…… the knob heed or is it dick head ‘es back !!
Twita twat on twotter tweet.
Why is called a tweet and not a twit?
Pretty sensible guidelines IMO.
Twitter should consider publishing them as general recommendations.
Not bad advice but he’s missed off an obvious one – get some software to farm Twitter followers. Does he really expect us to believe he is popular or well-known enough to get 40,000 followers or that he has personally chosen to follow 20,000 people – would have taken him weeks?
Where’s Heid Hi gone?
He Hide (her)
Welcome back B illy – now accept you are banned, take your full refund and fuck off
Twitter, how to ruin your political career in only 140 characters.
Titter or twitter ye not…… get yer tits oot for the lads
Or how to ruin… etc in 43 characters.
Hmmmmm so that is a big “no” ?
This is a blog not a web cam wankfest, Guido has not got the technology, yet.
I don’t believe it!
The country is on its knees and all we talk about is twitter and other meaninless topics just shows what the sheeple of this country are all about.
Back in 1939 we were intent on combating so called national socialism and in the event we won out.
Now we talk about endless drivel,what about talking about were we are being led and to what disaster?.
Comment awaiting moderation,Guido I will discuss my comment with you anytime,please take me up on this and I may surprise you,a pint on it.
Sаffrоn, уоu dоn’t gеt mоddеd аbоut whаt уоu thіnk оr whаt уоu sау. Yоu gеt mоddеd bу а brаіnlеss fіltеr іf уоu mеntіоn реаs оr rісе оr Раkіstаn.
Saff, you fault was using the word which should correctly be spelt “dr*vel”. GEDDIT? Suggest in future you choose a synonym eg rubbish, tripe etc which seem to get under the radar ok.
what – another bloody recess??????
We are now dead………………….
Enjoy the recess-I thought they were all suposed to be run off their feet attending to their ‘surgeries’
You missed this one Guido
I wouldn’t let Shapps give me advice on how to take a crap let alone anything else. Incompetent, indifferent ideologically driven wankstain unsuitable to work as a low level clerk for a housing association let alone as housing minister.