Twitter's Back Up Then

the 2012 olympics will be the first olympic games since the explosion in the use of social media such as twitter and facebook. as with all totalitarian regimes this has got the british hosts worried because it makes it much harder to control the flow of information. for example the state broadcaster (bbc) news is currently reporting stories as "breaking news" about three hours after they'd already broken on other news channels.

the brits are especially worried about my use of twitter. so much so that in the months prior to the games almost everyone i know was making a special effort to encourage me to get on twitter. the idea was to give the brits plenty of time to build up a pattern of my twitter use andand make sure the accounts i follow are firmly under control. this would have provided the opportunity for the brits to hold a tutorial for other oppressive regimes in how to control social media. unfortunately for them i left it very late to get on to twitter, my foillow list is constantly evolving and i'm piggy-backing on accouts like @tflofficial that the hosts need to facilitate the games. that makes it much harder to police my twitter use. so just after my previous post the uk threw the kitchen sink at the problem and took down the uk twitter mobile site although the main http site was still working.

oh and i still can't set up the email on torch but as you can see i've by-passed the problem although capitalisation is still proving difficult.