A Twit Twittering

The editor of the Washington Business Journal was a tad ill-timed in an opinion piece he wrote on April 3 disparaging Twitter as a waste of time. “You might sign up, but it won’t be long before you give up, too busy with matters of real importance to waste your time following some dweeb in Dundalk updating the world on his jock itch,”  he wrote in the article headlined Twitter Sucks. In fact as a tool of social protest Twitter was being anything but trivial in its consequences over in Old and New Europe. Some of the more militant of the G20 protesters organised themselves on Twitter to close down a chunk of London’s financial district. And in Moldova, young opponents of the ruling Communists mounted some serious protests using Twitter as well following parliamentary elections.