Choose your own retweet adventure

Do you want more retweets? Do you want to understand how the simple act of typing 140 characters of less can spur someone to expend all that effort in pressing a button to publicise your views? Do you want to game Twitter to get more followers and otherwise live a happy fulfilling life, or do you simply sit outside of it all and want to see what the fuss is all about?

This goes all the way to the top

With the furore over tabloid phone hacking dying down, it’s worth reminding ourselves that while the parliamentary hearing of Rupert Murdoch and his son James got an old man and his patsy son before MPs, there is someone who doesn’t just listen in to the phonecalls of celebrities and the ‘newsworthy’, but everyone.