WEBCAST: Twitter for Journalists, or everything you ever wanted. Twitter joke led to Terror Act arrest and airport life ban - Hom. Unfortunately for Mr Chambers, the police didn't see the funny side. A week after posting the message on the social networking site, he was arrested under the Terrorism Act and questioned for almost seven hours by detectives who interpreted his post as a security threat. After he was released on bail, he was suspended from work pending an internal investigation, and has, he says, been banned from the Doncaster airport for life. "I would never have thought, in a thousand years, that any of this would have happened because of a Twitter post," said Mr Chambers, 26. "I'm the most mild-mannered guy you could imagine. " While it has happened in the United States, Mr Chambers is thought to be the first person in the United Kingdom to be arrested for comments posted on Twitter.
On 13 January, after apparently receiving a tip-off from a member of the public, police arrived at Mr Chambers' office. Mr Chambers said the police seemed unable to comprehend the intended humour in his online comment. Twitter and Me! Why It’s The Only Social Media Tool I Use. With all the excitement about the Crunchies awards, I thought I should cast my ballot: Twitter. No, not because it’s the best product (I think Android is), but because it has impacted me the most.
To young TechCrunch readers, this post will seem pretty lame. An old professor trying to seem hip by writing about social networking. Yawn. But I’ve never been a fan of social media. I have more than 500 connections on LinkedIn, but have never invited anyone to network with me. But Twitter is a different. I didn’t feel this way a few months ago. It was pretty lonely at first, tweeting to myself, and I was rapidly losing interest.
Last July, my research team published a paper about the backgrounds and motivations of entrepreneurs. So I went to my new friend: Twitter. More recently, I’ve been getting demands from my Twitter followers for articles. So, Twitter has become a very useful tool. At present I have 3600 followers and they keep coming out of the woodwork. Twitter Exec: No IPO in 2010. The Six Twitter Types : The World. 15 Most Annoying Types of Twitter Users. Update: This article from last year deserves another look, so we’re moving it forward for your enjoyment. It can be argued that those of us who tweet links to content on the web are the most annoying of Twitter users.
That is the “category” that I fit in, so it makes sense that I would exclude my personal type from this list. Otherwise, there are probably dozens of other types that are just as annoying. This is, of course, a partial list, but we’ll be expanding the post once more annoying Twitter types come to light. In the meantime, here’s the first 14. Post any that we missed in the comments or tweet at us with your suggestions. 1. With as much money as people are apparently making on FOREX, it’s amazing that they have time to work their Twitter accounts. 2. When you post links to stories, you really should make sure that everyone can see what the story says rather than link to your own site and expect people to click through from your site to the source content. 3. 4. 5. 6. I know. 7.