Typecast

On Friday, I jumped into my car to drive into work as normal.  I turned the radio on and tuned into the 8am news.  The headlining story was the shocking news about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan .  My first thought turned to Carole and her family.  I only know Carole through a variety of internet connections but I consider her a friend.  She lives in Japan (has done for a few years now) but is ready to move back to Europe quite soon.  The news reports were spewing out too much information to take in but as soon as I got into work I tweeted:

I was very sad today when I read about #twitrelief.  Basically, you can bid on eBay for a celebrity to follow you on Twitter and, for the highest bidder, they will become a "friend with benefits" for a short time.  They will follow you, retweet you and mention you for a whole 90 days.  All proceeds to Comic Relief , naturally (yes, I've included the Comic Relief links because I'm nice like that.  If you want to bid that's entirely up to you.). Whoopie-fucking-do! I think I may have turned into the "Citizen Smith" of Twitter for half an hour - Power to the Tweeters or something -  because, for me, this actually take away the ethos behind twitter; the conversation and marketing platform that it has become.