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:
- 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. - 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. - Twitter makes users more immoral
- Tweeting too fast gives you no time to think about how your tweets could affect others. - 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… - Students can’t do their work because of Twitter
- Students are campaigning to stop Twitter fans from hogging university computers. - Ashton Kutcher becomes the world’s first Twitter millionaire
- The actor becomes the first user with 1 million followers. Stephen Fry must be devastated. - 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. - Keira Knightley hates Twitter
- The actress just can’t stand the social networking site. - 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. - 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?
