Twitter or twaddle?

Twitter was there when Osama bin Laden was killed, and is credited with aiding the Arab Spring Risings, but it is often banal and goes over the legal edge when it comes to celebrities, writes Michael Clifford

WITHIN minutes of the interview, Twitter was ablaze. Who is the Irish politician who slept with a prostitute? Who is the Irish rugby player?

It started not on the Late Late Show but on the Saturday night show a few weeks ago. The guest was Helen Wood, a prostitute who has scaled the steeples of fame on the back of a night she spent with footballer Wayne Rooney.