Was that tweet really necessary?

Rod Pitcher

By Rod Pitcher
Community contribution / January 26, 2016

Think about all the rubbish that is clogging up cyberspace from all the millions of tweets that are sent in a day. Not that your tweet is rubbish, of course. Just everyone else’s!

Are you the type of person who has a thought, however mundane, and has to rush off and tweet all ...

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