Hey, we're famous! (Just not for a good reason...)

Old Reynella is famous -- we must be, we were on the homepage at twitter.com with this:

This silly-looking object has been parked off one side of South Road for weeks now, advertising -- yep. You can see what it's advertising: the circus is coming to town. A year or so ago it was the Moscow State Circus, playing the same ground which is right now being prepared for Loritz. So someone's made off with a gigantic yellow eyesore. 

The question is, what the [expletive deleted] would anyone do with a giant yellow Bozo the Clown?!

Unless of course the folks nearby were just fed up of looking at Bozo here, so ... in the still, chilly watches of the night he was quietly deflated by the subtle expedient of a blowtorch and dropped discreetly into a skip at the OTR station. I wonder if the Police have looked there for the remains?! The eyesore is gone, and even the SA Police Department is tongue-on-cheek about this one! 

But there's the living proof Old Reynella actually exists: front page at twitter.com, albeit for the silliest of reasons.

And what was I doing at twitter.com to begin with, in order to glimpse this immortal event...?

I was just looking: window shopping. To tweet or not to tweet? That is the question. 

Why would I want to, in the first place? Well ... the thought's been in the back of my mind for some time: I'd like to write. I'd like to show my stories around, and to make this work people have to know those stories are out there. Twitter is renowned as a fantastic social media system which informs people by the stadiumful of ... well, of anything, really. Is it a smart idea to tweet, if you actually have something to twitter about (as distinct from the twittering that seems to go on regarding what's for dinner and last night's episode of Facepalmed). Would anyone want to read the tweets? Or --

To facebook or not to facebook? This is an equally insightful question, as facebook is just as bursting with politicians competing to make Adolf Eichman look like Mahatma Gandhi, and cats riding around on the Roomba. Hmm. Social media. Never having done this before, and being absolutely on the outside looking in, it's a daunting prospect. Must give it some more thought.