Just tweeted Alan Sugar. Yes the Alan Sugar. He

may not reply but it will probably be the closest

I get to ever talking to him. And I know he looks

at Twitter as he has a running public argument

with the Piers Morgan.

Have you notice how Twitter has really taken

off? Long gone are the days of Bebo, MySpace is

somewhat not in vogue, and Facebook is all a bit

intrusive for my liking. This is, not that I deny

owning a Facebook account, but do I really have

539 friends? I probably speak to about 20 on a

regular basis yet all 539 are free to “stalk” my

information and pictures; making assumptions

about who I am and really, know everything

about anything in my private and personal life.

And they say that ID fraud is on the rise- can

people really be that surprised? It gets a bit

creepy when you start to tell someone some

news from a close friend but they already know

the ending as “yeah I saw it on Facebook” Or

further still when people take pictures from

your profile and create a fake profile in order to

lure other Facebook users into heaven knows

what (and yes I know people that this has

happened to!)

And that is why I prefer twitter. A couple of

lines to introduce yourself, but other than that it

is much less intrusive. The best thing about

Twitter is that you can follow people who

inspire you, and if they update it regularly you

feel like you have become part of their world.

Twitter has broken the boundaries between us

common people and the world of the celebrity

and other powerful individuals. One thing that

does annoy me is that some people so into

Twitter that they tweet (yes tweet has become a

verb much like Google, Facebook and Wikipedia

“I’ll just Google/Facebook/Wikipedia that”),

“I’ll just Google/Facebook/Wikipedia that”),

about absolutely anything. For instance, “Oh I

just ate cauliflower cheese… reminds me of

home #Nostalgia”. Did I, in all seriousness,

need to know that? How has that comment

made an impact? Why even bother?

This I say with caution as who knows

“cauliflower cheese” might be trending and so

their comment would be, in the strange ways of

Twitter, entirely relevant and I could perhaps

forgive them. But what Twitter does, it allows

for these remarks, however trivial and

uninteresting they may seem. They give a voice,

freedom of thought and expression to the world,

or ore correctly those who own a Twitter

account. It allows a two way dialogue with the

big cheeses of the world. Your tweet may be

noticed by a follower, it may be answered by a

top business professional enquiring about your

latest entrepreneurial invention. Twitter has

broken down the communication boundary so

ordinary people can even have an impact on big

international companies. Most brands have a

Twitter account to keep people updated with

news in the hope that followers would tweet

about them so that the brand becomes a

trending topic. Twitter acts as another platform

for promotion and communication from the

consumers to the brand. It is no longer

necessary to even email international

companies to get work experience or even a job.

Just tweet them- who knows they may reply.

With caution I say, Twitter can be life changing.

So that is where I stand now; waiting for a tweet

back from Alan Sugar agreeing to let me become

his next apprentice. It might be my big break!