raincoaster, I am just so excited that you have sent the musical instruments idea of Boris Johnson to the Canadian Twitters! STUFF GORDON BROWN! YOU CAN REALLY CLAIM TO HAVE INFLUENCED THE GLOBAL SCENE!
WILL EVERYONE ON TWITTER PLEASE FOLLOW RAINCOASTER’S STELLAR EXAMPLE! All you have to do is put the link for Boris Johnson’s scheme to provide musical instruments for children on your Twitter account. (The link is quoted above). It couldn’t be easier!
DMNYC Where are you! Boris Johnson needs you so that he can establish a US link!
I wonder who is the most followed twit on twitter. That would be funny to find out. Russell Brand has 3,567 followers and he has only just started! GO FIGURE!
Raincoaster, in that case, someone should send the President the link for Boris’s speech on Garry McKinnon. Obama should definitely read that speech, as should his fellow Americans. Also it would be great to put the musical instruments link on there, so Americans know what is happening over here.
Mel or Gill, would you like this done, has it been done or shall we get on this 24/7, ASAP topside!
Angela, Ross’s 49 ? Well, I suppose he look that young because he can afford his weekly over-dozed Botox injections.
Jaq, communist-influenced idealogy Brown picked up since his university days which he hasn’t grown out of or he, the lefties and the whole Labour have always been influenced by the Soviet Union are very much the same to me.
You mentioned the 4 cheating Labour Lords. Well, Google:
SECRET SOVIET PAST OF SLEAZE PEER SIMON WALTERS GLEN OWEN THE MAIL ON SUNDAY FEBRUARY 1, 2009
I take back everything bad I said about Twitter. It is genius. At a stroke, the Mayor’s article on Gary McKinnon and his musical instruments amnesty has been shared with 225, 256 Americans. GOD BLESS AMERICA.
OOOps no that is not right. All his 2225,256 and rapidly rising followers won’t have got it, but the President did, because I had a note that he is following me. They probably have some trusty aides on it.
No, he did not. Obama does not actually read those, nor does his staff as far as I can see. Most people do not read every post of every person whom they follow. People like Obama probably don’t read ANY of them. Stephen Fry, the third most followed person on Twitter, doesn’t read them, but he DOES read the ones that start with @StephenFry.
If you want someone’s attention on Twitter, @ them if it’s something public, and DM them if it’s something private. I would DM this, because it’s rude to ask a favour in public of someone you’ve just met. It puts him on the spot to respond. On the other hand, if you want to PRESSURE the president of the United States, go ahead and @ him.
Nothing is shared with the people following him until it comes from his account. And he isn’t posting much lately, if you’ll take a look.
Oh, and there shouldn’t be any spaces between the @ and the name. It should be right at the front of the post, too, because the search will find it easier, so the whole post would be something like:
@BarackObama @MayorofLondon has a wonderful idea for donating unused musical instruments to schoolkids. See http://tinyurl.com/bq6rvv
That fits, with 7 characters to spare. And it shows you how to shorten a long URL like:
Mel, the Borislandia thread should be a sitcom! It would be HILARIOUS. The only snag though…. who could possibly play Boris better than the Mayor himself!
THERE IS ONLY ONE BORIS JOHNSON.
raincoaster, you are a belting little treasure, and your advice is enormously appreciated. I sent a Dm and my links seem to morph into suitable urls by themselves. ps. i would love to send the scheme to Oprah but she doesn’t seem to take replies.
At 2009.02.03 13:42, GORDON BROWN IS A FATTIE said:
GORD ON TWITTER
No.10 Downing St, London
8AM- Wake up ( Parp ! )
9AM- Get out of bed ( Parp ! ). Twaddle to the loo ( Parp ! ) ( Parp ! ) ( Parp ! )
9.30AM- Lardarse-indoor places 4 meat pies on table for breakfast.
9.35AM- All the meat pies disappear. ( Parp ! )
9.40AM- Lardarse-indoor places another 4 meat pies on table for breakfast.
9.45AM- All the meat pies disappear again. ( Parp ! ). Lardarse asks where the pies gone? I doon’t know. Nouthin’ t’doo weeth meee. Maybe eet waous that Keite Moss. I doon’t knou. Why doo they draw mee so fat. Iai’m nout that fat. Why theiy draow mee so fat. ( Waaaaar !!! Waaaaar !!! cry, cry )
I take back what I said about Twitter because it is quite good fun. It is good for featherheads such as myself, although I would not spend ages on there. Every now and then the Mayor descends and makes a proclamation like Moses from Mount Sinai, it is exciting. All Boris’s supporters should support him on twitter.
Bee
What else makes you laugh in gloom and doom times? the thought of doing a Scottish country dance with Donald of where’s …. – he would swing any girl right round and send her into a spin the like she will never have seen before and never forget! We, south of the border, are prone to being a bit too straight-laced and po-faced I think.
The only job Gordon really wants to save is his own.
All those years in history that Scotland sucked up to France, and Elizabeth I feared the Scots would allow France to attack her by landing on their shores. Oh yes, France owes the Scots some gratitude, which they have repaid this week by Sarkozy knifing Gordon in the front by ridiculing his economic rescue package.
To add insult to injury, the first European politician to embrace Obama is one Tony Blair! The teeth marks are on Gordon’s living room carpet. It’s a hard life.
Hi Catherine
If you are a twitterer you have to win the prize for the most original question and by implication you must of course be a complete tweety pie
They do it because they love the sound of their own voice and need an audience. Will Carling is on all the time. so is Jonathan Ross giving us every tiny detail of his life, and he says he could not live without Twitter.
Over on Twitter – you can have Obama, Clinton, No 10, to follow as well as Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Hugo Young – not to mention Angela and raincoaster – so all a lot of fun
I’ll join when it gives me visual updates of Chris Hitchens in the shower. I’m sure the question of whether he’s still waxed or au natural is far more interesting than anything Ross might be doing.
Angela, sweetie, I don’t base my opinion of authors and orators or even the PM on looks, but Christopher is a handsome man. [Ed: amended by request of commenter]
Would like Mayor to consider passenger with Arthritic joints when ordering his next fleet of public transport,especially buses! the seats are far too low! Can be painful when sitting and rising.
kind regards.
“Radio?” I am no knowing what means this word. Is ancient Latin, yes?
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raincoaster, I am just so excited that you have sent the musical instruments idea of Boris Johnson to the Canadian Twitters! STUFF GORDON BROWN! YOU CAN REALLY CLAIM TO HAVE INFLUENCED THE GLOBAL SCENE!
WILL EVERYONE ON TWITTER PLEASE FOLLOW RAINCOASTER’S STELLAR EXAMPLE! All you have to do is put the link for Boris Johnson’s scheme to provide musical instruments for children on your Twitter account. (The link is quoted above). It couldn’t be easier!
DMNYC Where are you! Boris Johnson needs you so that he can establish a US link!
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Actually, I have more American followers than Canadian ones. It’s a pretty international medium. But thank you.
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raincoaster, now you have me following you. If you want to follow me, I am under angelneptustar. OMIT THE “n” in neptunestar, ok i goofed there.
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Did that two hours ago. I’m all over this social media shizznit.
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I wonder who is the most followed twit on twitter. That would be funny to find out. Russell Brand has 3,567 followers and he has only just started! GO FIGURE!
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Obama, who follows everyone who follows him, has over 200,000.
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Raincoaster, in that case, someone should send the President the link for Boris’s speech on Garry McKinnon. Obama should definitely read that speech, as should his fellow Americans. Also it would be great to put the musical instruments link on there, so Americans know what is happening over here.
Mel or Gill, would you like this done, has it been done or shall we get on this 24/7, ASAP topside!
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Angela, Ross’s 49 ? Well, I suppose he look that young because he can afford his weekly over-dozed Botox injections.
Jaq, communist-influenced idealogy Brown picked up since his university days which he hasn’t grown out of or he, the lefties and the whole Labour have always been influenced by the Soviet Union are very much the same to me.
You mentioned the 4 cheating Labour Lords. Well, Google:
SECRET SOVIET PAST OF SLEAZE PEER SIMON WALTERS GLEN OWEN THE MAIL ON SUNDAY FEBRUARY 1, 2009
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Bee, you are funny.
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I take back everything bad I said about Twitter. It is genius. At a stroke, the Mayor’s article on Gary McKinnon and his musical instruments amnesty has been shared with 225, 256 Americans. GOD BLESS AMERICA.
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OOOps no that is not right. All his 2225,256 and rapidly rising followers won’t have got it, but the President did, because I had a note that he is following me. They probably have some trusty aides on it.
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No, he did not. Obama does not actually read those, nor does his staff as far as I can see. Most people do not read every post of every person whom they follow. People like Obama probably don’t read ANY of them. Stephen Fry, the third most followed person on Twitter, doesn’t read them, but he DOES read the ones that start with @StephenFry.
If you want someone’s attention on Twitter, @ them if it’s something public, and DM them if it’s something private. I would DM this, because it’s rude to ask a favour in public of someone you’ve just met. It puts him on the spot to respond. On the other hand, if you want to PRESSURE the president of the United States, go ahead and @ him.
Nothing is shared with the people following him until it comes from his account. And he isn’t posting much lately, if you’ll take a look.
http://twitter.com/BarackObama
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Oh, and there shouldn’t be any spaces between the @ and the name. It should be right at the front of the post, too, because the search will find it easier, so the whole post would be something like:
@BarackObama @MayorofLondon has a wonderful idea for donating unused musical instruments to schoolkids. See http://tinyurl.com/bq6rvv
That fits, with 7 characters to spare. And it shows you how to shorten a long URL like:
http://www.boris-johnson.com/2009/01/20/musical-instrument-amnesty/
to a short one like:
http://tinyurl.com/bq6rvv
by going to http://tinyurl.com/
And there you have about fifteen hundred dollars worth of social media consulting. Over and out.
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Bee, raincoaster and Angela – you have really made me laugh! Good insights and sense of humour girls
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ps. I also sent the link by direct message.
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Mel, the Borislandia thread should be a sitcom! It would be HILARIOUS. The only snag though…. who could possibly play Boris better than the Mayor himself!
THERE IS ONLY ONE BORIS JOHNSON.
raincoaster, you are a belting little treasure, and your advice is enormously appreciated. I sent a Dm and my links seem to morph into suitable urls by themselves. ps. i would love to send the scheme to Oprah but she doesn’t seem to take replies.
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GORD ON TWITTER
No.10 Downing St, London
8AM- Wake up ( Parp ! )
9AM- Get out of bed ( Parp ! ). Twaddle to the loo ( Parp ! ) ( Parp ! ) ( Parp ! )
9.30AM- Lardarse-indoor places 4 meat pies on table for breakfast.
9.35AM- All the meat pies disappear. ( Parp ! )
9.40AM- Lardarse-indoor places another 4 meat pies on table for breakfast.
9.45AM- All the meat pies disappear again. ( Parp ! ). Lardarse asks where the pies gone? I doon’t know. Nouthin’ t’doo weeth meee. Maybe eet waous that Keite Moss. I doon’t knou. Why doo they draw mee so fat. Iai’m nout that fat. Why theiy draow mee so fat. ( Waaaaar !!! Waaaaar !!! cry, cry )
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I take back what I said about Twitter because it is quite good fun. It is good for featherheads such as myself, although I would not spend ages on there. Every now and then the Mayor descends and makes a proclamation like Moses from Mount Sinai, it is exciting. All Boris’s supporters should support him on twitter.
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GORDON BROWN ON TWITTER.
6 AM. oCH AI, had half a bowl of gruel for ma breakfast! With cold water.
Listened to recording of “Donald, where’s ya troosers!”
The Mayor of London is a decadent, frivolous reprobate, unfit to wear a kilt.
No more Boom or Bust!
Told Sarah to make soup from potato peelings for supper.”Stop ya cryin wummin! Do God’s work”
What else can I spend English tax payers’ money on? Heh, heh, heh, I remember Culloden!
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Angela
>Listened to recording of “Donald, where’s ya troosers!”
I love that song – it is so so funny and lively! just the thing to liven up a dark dull winter morning.
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Mel, it is so goofy and daft, I am giggling away!
I must do a thread on celebrity twitters, and that would be a lot of fun.
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Mel, we need to laugh in this gloomy time really !!!
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Well said bee!
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Bee
What else makes you laugh in gloom and doom times? the thought of doing a Scottish country dance with Donald of where’s …. – he would swing any girl right round and send her into a spin the like she will never have seen before and never forget! We, south of the border, are prone to being a bit too straight-laced and po-faced I think.
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Hi Folks
In order to try and raise a smile this is a funny notice I have read about of a meeting next week in parliament:
BRITISH-ARGENTINE GROUP Meeting with Alfonso Prat-Gay
I mean – can you imagine a worse double whammy?
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In an office he would answer the phone as: “Prat Gay” and that could cause any number of insults!
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Gordon Brown : ” Strikes??? My pledge: British dole for British workers !!!! Ha ha ha !!! “
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The only job Gordon really wants to save is his own.
All those years in history that Scotland sucked up to France, and Elizabeth I feared the Scots would allow France to attack her by landing on their shores. Oh yes, France owes the Scots some gratitude, which they have repaid this week by Sarkozy knifing Gordon in the front by ridiculing his economic rescue package.
To add insult to injury, the first European politician to embrace Obama is one Tony Blair! The teeth marks are on Gordon’s living room carpet. It’s a hard life.
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Tweet Will Carling and you get his views on the Six nations.
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Who is the tweetest tweeter on Twitter?
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Hi Catherine
If you are a twitterer you have to win the prize for the most original question and by implication you must of course be a complete tweety pie
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Amazing dave – how do the likes of Will Carling have the time and energy?! Is twittering that vital? it must be
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They do it because they love the sound of their own voice and need an audience. Will Carling is on all the time. so is Jonathan Ross giving us every tiny detail of his life, and he says he could not live without Twitter.
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Have I won a tweetie?
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Catherine
It would be a tweet to get you a tweetie of the very tweetest kind
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Over on Twitter – you can have Obama, Clinton, No 10, to follow as well as Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Hugo Young – not to mention Angela and raincoaster – so all a lot of fun
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I’ll join when it gives me visual updates of Chris Hitchens in the shower. I’m sure the question of whether he’s still waxed or au natural is far more interesting than anything Ross might be doing.
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Jaq sweetie, but Christopher Hitchens looks so miserable all the time! Even worse than GB! What on earth to you see in him?
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Angela, sweetie, I don’t base my opinion of authors and orators or even the PM on looks, but Christopher is a handsome man. [Ed: amended by request of commenter]
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Incidentally you clearly missed the point of my comment:[Ed: amended by request of commenter]
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Far too subtle.
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Jaq and Angela, please read my peace message to you both on The Benefits Of Free Trade, Boris Johnson.
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Bee, Jaq and I are planning a pyjama party, where we drink hot chocolate, braid each other’s hair and giggle, you are welcome to join us!
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Oi, ya two – pack it in, won’t ya ? or I’ll hand each of ya a gun and I’ll count to 3 – ok? Who stops breathing will win that PC Game.
Jaq, Mystic Meg was only trying to wind you up for a laugh. Don’t fall for it !
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Bee – I have noticed your efforts, thank you. Peace be with you.
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[...] Boris Johnson has a link to his twitter account on his official website. [...]
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So, he’s trying out that “Following” thing. Still obviously not got it quite right, though.
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Am having such fun on Twitter: it’s awesome!
http://twitter.com/Melissacw
where else would you get a personal message from Will Carling and hear all about Stephn Fry gadding about in America?
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Would like Mayor to consider passenger with Arthritic joints when ordering his next fleet of public transport,especially buses! the seats are far too low! Can be painful when sitting and rising.
kind regards.
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