The penny may finally be dropping that Tweeting is for the birds

THE fact that Ray Foley is a Twitter quitter just might start a trend.

Because Mr Foley, a radio and TV presenter who, until recently, tweeted for several hours a day, has stopped, not because other Tweeters attacked him, but because he realised what a God-awful waste of time Tweeting represents.

The guy who invented Twitter, one Jack Dorsey, tweets the content of his own breakfast. He was asked, on a recent visit to Dublin, why he does this. Good question. Let’s face it, unless someone eats roasted roadkill or boiled budgie as their first meal of the day, the rest of us aren’t that bothered. Oh, Dorsey casually responded, the breakfast tweets are for his mother. His mother likes to know what he eats.