Last weekend’s Sunday Times carried a full page article on Twitter entitled ‘What makes Twitter worth a billion dollars?‘
Readers of this blog (though apparently not my nearest and dearest, friends and neighbours) will know that Twitter is a free online service which enables users to send and read messages of no longer than 140 characters known as Tweets.
I conducted a random poll around our house over breakfast amongst people ranging in age from 22 to 59 and no one had used the service nor knew what it was for. I assumed, as a result, that it must be for the very young who were not represented at the poached egg stage or for celebrities such as Stephen Fry and Barack Obama whose tweets have found their way into the press.