The whole idea of 'Twitter' seems to be to pander to the lowest common denominator, those who have the shortest attention span, least real knowledge and an insaitable desire for either disseminating, or hearing about, the trivial doings of largely trivial people. That serious journalists and even some politicians have resorted to this medium shows only how desperate they are for the attention of the twits who inhabit this arena.
In recent days, the High Court has ruled that so-called super-injunctions should only be issued in very rare and exceptional circumstances, mainly because the issue of many of those currently in effect has been circumvented by users of the aforementioned 'Twitter'. Now, a footballer identified as 'CTB', is trying to obtain an order that could compel 'Twitter' to say who has been spreading certain stories about him and identifying him in connection with an action he is currently taking against the 'Sun' newspaper and some woman I've never heard of.
Whoever this footballer is, and presumably many people already know and it can't be very difficult to find out, he's presumbly one of those highly overpaid and overrated clots who play in our 'Premier League'; presumably, he's done something he'd rather keep hidden from his admirers for fear of the damage that public knowledge would do both to his image and his sponsorship income.
As it's based in California and the US approach to 'privacy' is somewhat different to ours, it seems quite unlikely that 'Twitter' will comply with any order issued by a British court. It nonetheless seems quite ridiculous that the doings of some kicker of a ball should either be of sufficient interest to warrant this level of attention or should warrant the issue of an injunction or other order by the courts. In this instance, however, 'Twitter' has probably done us a service, though not for any reason that could be identified as laudable, more to do with the gossipy, salacious and celebrity-orientated nature of their audience.
Frankly, however, we seem to have lost all sense of proportion where such matters are concerned.
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