"Too Many Twits Make A Twat"

What do Trent Reznor and David Cameron have in common? Well other than their outstanding sense of self importance, both suffered limited success at online social networking (webcameron peaked far too early) and both seem to hold a particular grudge against the twitter population.

Reznor seems to have a greater cause for grief, according to a post on the Nine Inch Nails forum "Around the time news broke of my engagement, a faction of troublemakers showed up whose sole intent was to disrupt, harass, insult and incite." Such an unecessary level of abuse has now caused him to leave the website, "You trolling, cowardly pigs-- you've succeeded."

The same can't really be said for Cameron who this monday on the Christain O'Connell expressed the impressively frank remark, "too many twits make a twat". Whatever its political motivations, the comment does raise the question of whether celebrities only serve to embarass themselves through their twiter posts.

After a brief search here are 3 examples of your typical offenders:

1) Carl Barat (the bore):

Had a bit of a lie-in this morning, but still shattered *yawn*4:28 AM Jul 24th from web

I don't know whether Carl purposely saves the most tedious moments of his day for twitter but I don't really need to know about his sleeping habits

2) Jon McClure (the activist):

failed musicians should be barred from becoming music critics! also why cant people describe records without reference to other ones ?6:19 AM Jul 25th from web

Even if you extend this caveat to every journalist who voted Conservative at the last election, one suspects the majority of reviews for A French Kiss In The Choas would still be dire.

3) James Endeacott (the misunderstood ruffian):

99 problems on the helter skelter as I travel up the river under the bridges of life.....save meabout 20 hours ago from TwitterBerry

The worst kind of offender, trying to put accross a faux artistic spirit in 140 characters but instead producing the same meaningless drivel as Carl