Tag Archives: tweets

See Also:

Thanks Bibi Baskin Robbins

Exquisite Tweets has compiled a twitter conversation that happened between 11.17am and 11.46am today.

21st century Chinese whispers: a metaphor for modern media.

The sequence started with the three tweets above. Here’s what happened next.

In the face of brutal budget cuts and staff layoffs, Chief Constable Peter Fahy (above, cuffed) of the Greater Manchester Police has come up with a rather brilliant PR stunt: posting details of every 999 call the GMP (already stretched to its limit) receives inside a 24 hour period.

Three dedicated twitter feeds are being used to log the calls in real-time: a gob-smacking, sometimes depressing, frequently hilarious mixture of batshit craziness and mundanity.

The deluge started at 5am this morning and continues until 5am Friday.

GMP Tweets (the Guardian)