Tweetledee

Just feel like I'm coming to grips with the Twitterverse. In some ways it seems an even more peculiar place than the blogosphere always has been.

Consider two random exchanges I stumbled on recently.

Sachin Tendulkar recently joined Twitter, setting hearts and fingers a-twitter everywhere cricket is spoken. I wandered over to his page at some point in the last couple of days, to find a message from him to another tweeter. Idly clicked through to that person's page, to find a series of tweets imploring ("please please please") SRT to say hello to him. Which eventually SRT did. Which prompted a ferventweet of gratitude ("thank you thank you thank you").

Fine so far.

Then I see on this same person's page two tweets directed at Salman Khan, the actor. They had me furrowing my brow, so I wandered over to check what SK had tweeted to prompt these. This was it, in full and verbatim: "Plz wl cm sania mirza."

"Please welcome Sania Mirza", for those who cannot grok twitter.

And this had our "please" and "thank you man" saying, and I paraphrase the two tweets here, "Definitely not! Couldn't she have found a boy in India? Sister of Kasab!"