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Tag: Twitter

  • Surrey Police supporting cycling on Twitter

    I was really happy to see this Tweet from Surrey Police on Twitter. https://twitter.com/SurreyRoadCops/status/1012659090391273473 I went for a bike ride today and I was thinking about how the act of sitting on a bike and pedalling makes some people hate me. For no rational reason other than being on a bike, I am hated. What…

  • Are websites becoming obsolete?

    Are Facebook business pages and Twitter stories obliterating the need for businesses and individuals to have a website? I see this happening quite a lot now – a business builds themselves a Facebook page and this becomes their only online presence. Is it a good idea for a company to maintain their online presence using…

  • What is Twitter good for?

    Lots of things! I found one particularly good use for it recently. Yesterday I published a fact sheet which I copied directly from George Monbiot’s blog about the harm traffic pollution does to children. I thought I’d better double-check with him that this would be ok and so I sent him a Tweet. He replied almost…

  • Some cool things from the #cycling Twitter feed

      Before I go to bed each night I read the #cycling Twitter feed. There’s some good stuff there. Here are some of the things I’ve seen recently. I thought this was very funny: a car drove into a high-viz shop. Attention pedestrians: Please keep your high-viz attire on at all times, even indoors. Because you…

  • Be careful what you say

    A couple of times recently I’ve replied to a Twitter direct message on my iPhone expecting my reply to also be a direct message only to be horrified to see my message become a Tweet on my public profile. At first I thought maybe I had done something wrong so I tested it out today. A friend sent me…

  • An apology and Scottish independence

    I retweeted a tweet earlier that I thought was funny but was criticised for tweeting foul language. I actually regret retweeting that tweet now (and have removed it from my feed), not so much because of the language – I do have a bit of a foul mouth – but because I can see that some might find…