Twitter has really come into its own this week. Yep, so there have been some disappointments, like @CHRISDJMOYLES and @schofe discussing it for a near half hour on Radio 1.
And then there was all that rubbish with Stephen Fry in the lift. I'm not even going to write his Twitter name for fear that he might get more followers, swelling his surely already rather large head/ability to get free stuff.
But the good old British weather has brought out the very best in Twitter. Usually my feed is filled with tech PRs and journos tweeting endlessly about the news and reactions of the day, but this week #uksnow (that's a 'hashtag,' in case you didn't know) has filled the agenda.
Instead of jabberings about web apps, networking events and the upcoming Mobile World Congress, gleeful workers were instead posting pictures of snow-bound streets and people wittering on about Starbucks withdrawal symptoms. It's been a lot of fun.
Today, it's still very snowy in Bath, where some of us TechRadarians are based – and quite unbelievably it's our local bus station that really makes me think that Twitter is useful for far more than just inane wibblings.
Following @bathcsc might not be that exciting on the surface of it, but using social media to keep people updated with what's happening on a local level – now that's where it's at. Hats off to them.
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