let she who is not dim cast the first stone

If “Twitter for Dummies” couldn’t help me does this mean I’m no dummy?

Kirsten Neel, on the other hand, has got this twitter stuff sorted. An 18 year old from the US state of Georgia, she tweeted the following message after hearing Obama had won the election:

"I'm moving to Australia, because their president is a Christian and actually supports what he says."

If Google News hadn't taken me to newspaper reports of this hasty comment – apparently she meant our previous president – I would have missed all the twit-wit comments. Some of them were pithy, to say the least. For example:

…the type of information you would expect from someone who uses a 2,000 year old religious tome as their primary schooltext…

30 years ago the running gag was that it takes a computer to really get the most from human error. What’s the 21st century equivalent of putting your foot in your mouth?