Gordon Brown gets Twitter

UK PM Gordon Brown now has a Twitter account.

If you don’t know what Twitter is, I’m sorry to be the one to inform you. It’s a micro-blogging service, essentially an aggregator of away messages and statuses, known as ‘tweets’ to users. For example, ‘at work.’ That’s it. There’s nothing else, just updates on what you’re doing.

But it gets slightly more creepy. Your friends or ‘followers’ can choose to have your ‘tweets’ sent to their phone in the form of a text message. I suppose that’s useful, if you care to know that ‘hellolouise’ is ‘cutting paper.’