Mhambi has been trying for some time to get into Twitter. The so-called ‘micro-blogging’ service which is really a Facebook-like status update minus the rest of Facebook.
I followed Obama’s amazing campaign all this year for instance.
But like Facebook, Twitter is only interesting if your following and interacting with interesting people. Obama fell silent the night of his election.
Recently I chanced on Joy Cloete’s Twitter stream – she’s a copywriter from Cape Town. Today she alerted me – besides that David Kramer was in Exclusive Books – to the presence of none other than motor mouth Julius Malema on Twitter. Excellent!
Yes THAT Julius, the one of the looks and language to die for. Julius if you remember is the young man who has said he will kill for ANC president Jacob Zuma to become president and much besides.
Here a sample of Julius’s latest Tweets.
Seems war is still on his mind. And Terror.
Terror Lekota, the leader of the new Congress of the People (Cope) and new threat to the Zuma ANC is also on Twitter.
Terror has more followers than you Julius.
You can follow my Tweets on Twitter as well.
But be warned I tweet on both things digital and SA politics. If you want just the politics or the digital then its best to follow either my blog Mhambi or ZuluZulu‘s RSS feeds.
PS: Seems from Julius’s stream that he has noticed that he has an search engine problem. Search for brainless youth leader and Julius Malema’s name appears.
Related deployments:
I see on his Twitter that Julius is a fan of the satirical website, Hayibo. I love the site and this article entitled “ANC Youth League defends functional grade woodworker Malema” is quite possibly the funniest thing I have read all year. Really.
http://www.hayibo.com/articles/view/893
In reference to Malema’s dismal matric results Hayibo manufactures this quote by the rabble-rousing youngsters:
“Woodworking is all about hewing wood and entrenching the hegemony of racism,” read the statement. “Comrade Malema was subverting this by failing so selflessly.”
It explained that Malema had been planning to construct a baroque cuckoo-clock for his final Grade 12 project, but chose instead to “reject bourgeois values and instead make a dovetail joint, representing the will of the masses”.
“However this plan was betrayed by counterrevolutionary cold-glue which got all over everything, and a racist chisel which split the joint a week before deadline.”
Amazing. This site, by the way, is all the initiative of Mr. Tom Eaton.
Oh hectic. Why didn’t my RSS feed alert me to this mention of my Twitter ID?
Awesomesauce. I’m enjoying yer site, btw.