Media Twitter is regularly hilarious,but making name puns around holidays makes it tough to advise who you are when news breaksI esteem Twitter. I really accomplish. It’s a beautiful, wild, and democratic experiment; a place for conversation to soar. It is the dependable spiritual successor to the Viennese coffee-houses of Wittgenstein and Freud,or the Left Bank bars in which Hemingway and Fitzgerald caroused. It is at turns hilarious and intense, as breaking news in real-time jostles with wordplay. Despite its financial woes, and I’m not alone in finding it intoxicating.
But in the run-up to Halloween,Twitter is ruined; rendered virtually unusable by people of the journalistic persuasion changing their names to twee, confusing, and un-funnily spooky almost-puns.
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Source: theguardian.com