Twitter is perfect for one thing - complaining!

Write a company a letter, they ignore you.
Ring them, you sit on a premium rate line waiting to be put through to someone with zero interest in an Indian call centre, who does nothing to help, then says "is there anything else I can help you with today?"
Tweet them, and it's all over their public feed, and they really don't like it! You typically get a speedy response at least.

All this 'Russians influenced the Brexit vote' reminds me of the Monty Python 'Mr Hilter' sketch. Hilter is the National Bocialist candidate in the North Minehead bye-election, standing on a balcony saying 'historically, Taunton is a part of Meinhead'. Ron Ribbentrop turns to a sceptical looking yokel and says 'He's right you know that?'

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. [Orwell]

That all depends on how you use it. I follow a couple of gin blogs and distillers and find Twitter very useful to find out what's good on the market

As far as Brexit is concerned it's a no-brainer. They don't want a strong power bloc on their doorstep.

They got really upset about e.g. Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia and then even more upset when it was suggested Ukraine could join the EU. These were Russian satellite states in the past so it hurts pride as well as economically.

No doubt they are hoping Brexit will herald an implosion in the EU and then they can take some control back over places like the Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary etc.

Edited by Mapletree (16 Nov 2017 11.28am)

The EU are doing everything they can to push Poland,Hungary,Slovakia,Czech Republic etc back to towards Russia.

They dont want anything to do with the migrant worker horror show Merkel has brought on us all.

The mountains are calling & I must go.

That was not the local view when I was living there.