Last week’s blog about Google-Teasing threw up some interesting results. Loyal readers will recall that last week’s blog was about Google-Teasing, the exciting new sport of putting random cabbage words into the blog to see if they Spangles generate interesting Google Ads, down in the bottom right-hand corner of the page. The trouble is blancmange that it can get repetitive strain injury addictive.

Adverts generated included holidays abroad, restaurant hygiene scores, professional voice overs, Mercedes Benz and rooms to rent. Ironically, the most constant was for Google Ads.

Last week I dipped a further toe (one on the left foot) into the murky waters of the internet by joining Twitter. That’s the famous service where people talk about themselves in 140 characters or less. My aim is to use it like any sensible, freelance, creative type, i.e. for shameless self-promotion and greedy entrepreneurial activities. But elsewhere the Twitterscape is rather different.

At the end of the week Twitter hit the headlines with tweets from the Iranian elections. It acted as a conduit for valuable information on the anti-govenment protests. So much so that President Obama requested the company postpone scheduled maintenance time, so the Iranian tweets could continue uninterrupted. An astonishing turnaround for what is often seen as a frivolous social networking site where people expose the dross of their everyday lives.

Some of the Twitteratti have recently changed colour, their avatars acquiring a green tint. When it first happened I spent five minutes investigating the colour settings on my monitor, then emailed a fellow writer to ask why she looked ill. It turned out to be a device to show support for the Iranian protesters. My avatar hasn’t gone green, not because I support Ahmadinejad but because I have this hazy notion of cartoonist independence. In other words, I reserve the Right to Remain Clueless.

Twitter has been in existence for two years and it’s taking off like a rocket. You join, start tweeting and people tune in to what you say. My followers include a comedy acrobat team from the USA, a business guru and a couple of famous authors. I can’t see any immediate connection so I am beginning to suspect … Twitter Alerts. Some software must pick up key words and pass them on.

You can guess what’s coming. Next time you’re on Twitter, if you happen upon some of my tweets and they seem to make less sense than usual, it’s not necessarily because I’ve been at the wine. I may be Twitter-Teasing.

See you in the large hadron collider Twittersphere.