Twitter Time.

A twit is an informal British noun which refers to a silly or foolish person. We have all probably been referred to as one sometimes in our lives. Birds Twitter or chirp and sing away which is doubtless the origin of the instant messaging service founded by Jack Dorsey.and others in 2000. Elon Musk in one of the biggest acquisitions of all time paid $44 billion for it 23 years on. The man in the street get their moment to say something short and sweet but often short and ugly. It’s a platform of opinion that opines offends and opens bigger debate.

I don’t use it and my twit tweet is reserved in the blog bog which allows a ramble rant. Like a tweet once sent it’s out there and for example stupid things can be said like Greta Thunberg tweeted in 2008 that the world through climate change would end five years later. Good morning Greta it’s 2023 and I’m still to Greet Greta.

Forecasts are dangerous things as the forecaster looks stupid when that forecast is blatantly wrong. Isaiah in 700 BC forecast the coming of Christ born of a virgin to a son called Emmanuel. Ezekiel around a hundred years later prophesied the real end times to come and world events are gathering ominously around what he said. Not all crystal balls are clear and the world is going to end predictions have seen cult like calamity when the hour passed without event. Like the tweet however once said you can’t unsay it and the tongue and the index finger though small often can become a big tool used wrongly and dangerously.

The Lord’s Prayer is 14 characters and the same as Twitter allows in one post though Jesus couldn’t put it digitally out there 2000 years ago it’s more remembered than any tweet even those posted by ex President Donald. It’s the instant that people like the get it out there off my chest moment that digital diatribe which attracts the the clever ones and the foolish.

If you have time to read and use your eyes rather than tongue or finger pick up the that book that has sold over 5 billion copies. It’s called the Bible , people swear by it and Dylan Thomas spoke of its colour Bible Black. In there you’ll read some of the prophecies and though we have modern day prophets their utterings are yet to be tested fully.

J K Rowling whose Harry Potter books have sold over 600 million copies tweets I believe and she’s no twit. Anyway I’m going to read the Bible book today and see what’s coming down the track and what will be fashioned today from the real Potter’s wheel. Try it don’t be a twit.