I have lots of followers on Twitter—1,882 and counting. But the e-mailed notification I received about a new acolyte, arriving very soon after my recent Hillary Clinton/Ai Weiwei post, gave me pause:
“Speak kindly, OR ELSE“??? Should I “follow Chinese Authorities”? This sounded like it could be a spoof—“Snooping in Your Business”—but I wasn’t entirely sure. With some trepidation, I clicked the link to the “Authorities” Twitter page, and came upon this:
I guess the “Authorities” have been zapped by the Twitter Police—counter-tweeterism.
Sometimes being “followed” is not such a good thing! CultureGrrl may soon have to disappear into a Bloggers Protection Program.