Beating a hasty reTweet

I finally got to use my favourite Twitter joke for the title of this post. I have been "on the Twitter" for quite a while now - yes, at first I did wonder if it was a bit pointless, and did post too much about what I was about to eat and the current weather conditions. Over time, however, I've had fun using replies, retweets and direct messages, and following some well-known people who are living rather public lives via their Twitter feed, which I find quite generous and surprising of them. The author Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) uses the medium really well, and has attracted so many followers that he often links to a site in a tweet only to have the server crash spectacularly (this phenomenon now has its own hashtag, #neilwebfail).