It emerged this last week that Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, has banned his players from using Twitter to communicate with fans. The news came just after Liverpool’s want away Dutch player Ryan Babel Tweeted about his omission from the Liverpool squad to play at Stoke last weekend.
Manchester United announced that it had laid down the law to its players, just in case any of them felt the urge to upload squad selections onto Twitter. A United statement indicated that none of the United players were allowed to:
maintain personal profiles on social networking websites.
United’s rivals in the second leg of the League Cup semi final, Manchester City, made a similar announcement this week stating that (more…)







Today is Remembrance Day, and in two hours the nation will hold a two minutes’ silence in honour of all of the servicemen and women who lost their lives serving their country. As part of the two minutes’ silence, The Royal British Legion has requested that users of the social networking website Twitter also remain silent for two minutes, starting at 11:00am this morning.
Singer Lily Allen has finally turned her back on the Internet, claiming she’s giving up the Internet for good. Allen has labelled herself a ‘neo-luddite’ as she’s taken an almost Amish approach to technology. Lily has given away her Blackberry and her computer, and has renounced the evils of social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter, on which she would spend countless hours each day.
