Twitter is receiving a lot of hype at the moment, with more than 8,000 mentions in the media each week.  A lot of these articles are becoming increasingly far-fetched, with The Daily Mail a particularly bad offender.

Here’s a few of the most bizarre:

1. Twitter gives you cancer
   - All those hours sat indoors tweeting could increase your risk of cancer and damage your immune system by reducing the need to meet others face-to-face.
2. Twitter could give you Repetitive Strain Injury
   - Typing all those tweets could make your fingers go numb, leaving many users unable to inform their followers on Twitter that they are now suffering with RSI.
3. Twitter makes users more immoral
   -  Tweeting too fast gives you no time to think about how your tweets could affect others.
4. Lily Allen holds fancy dress party on Twitter
   - The singer uploads pics of herself dressed as a duck to make her followers smi-i-ile…
5. Students can’t do their work because of Twitter
   - Students are campaigning to stop Twitter fans from hogging university computers.
6. Ashton Kutcher becomes the world’s first Twitter millionaire
   - The actor becomes the first user with 1 million followers. Stephen Fry must be devastated.
7. The Guardian to be available only by Twitter
   - The newspaper raised a titter by announcing on 1st April that it planned to become the first newspaper in the world to be published exclusively via Twitter.
8. Keira Knightley hates Twitter
   - The actress just can’t stand the social networking site.
9. Moldovans turn to Twitter for information
   - A communications graduate has started translating tweets written in Romanian into English so that we can all sleep safely knowing what people are getting up to in Maldova.
10. Twitter harms children’s brains
    - Twitter can make kids more self centred by reducing their attention spans to such an extent that 140 characters is considered a big read.

Can you think of any more tall tales about Twitter?