I have been keeping an eye on the ‘09 Federal Budget online and that includes monitoring things like newsfeeds and Twitter. Searching the #ausbudget09 hash tag, I came across this from some numbskull who thinks it is funny to pose as the Shadow Treasurer and post low-brow tweets in his name.
Low wit = poor form
It is one thing to be clever and original, it is another to be a poor imitator - Fake Steve Jobs was funny, even Fake Stephen Conroy had his days – this is a copycat, poorly executed.
And to use this as a medium to make a joke out of a football player beating his girlfriend, is just appalling.
Wake up to yourself.
on May 15th, 2009 at 5:23 am
[...] An experience in Twitter Squatting the other night has got me to looking at some of the perils and pitfalls of Twitter as it currently stands and I have come to the conclusion that unless Twitter addresses some pretty important issues, it runs the risk of plateauing, being superseded or perhaps even a decline. [...]