WHEN Barack Obama used Twitter as a potent campaign tool last year, Filipino politicians took notice. Now, with national elections just a few months away, a number of them, too, have their own accounts with the popular micro-blogging service.

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JUST to be provocative, I was going to write a column entitled “Twitter is for twits”—but two things prevented me from doing this.

First, a quick Google of my prospective title showed that Bryony Gordon of The Telegraph in the UK had already used a variation in his opinion piece “Twittering is for twits with nothing better to do.

“If one more person sends me an e-mail or a text saying, ‘do you tweet?’ I will stamp on my mobile and replace it with two tin cans attached to a piece of string. Do I tweet? How dare you ask me such a thing. No I bloody well don’t tweet. I am a human, not a Looney Tunes cartoon character with a lisp,” Gordon writes in her piece.

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