The twitterverse is a strange place. I happened to
be on Twitter intermittently last Wednesday when the young
soldier was murdered in Woolwich, and following the #Woolwich trend was,
ah, fascinating.
One of the tweeters I noted was a rapper named Boya
Dee (@Boyadee), who was logging comments
apparently in real time:
(This is social media—you have to read from the
bottom up.)
As with the case of Sohaib Athar, who live-tweeted
the raid on Osama Bin Laden’s lair in Abbottabad two years ago, Boya Dee
became quite the media sensation. He was apparently beating off reporters &
TV presenters with a carpet-whacker.
Because of that, what news
stories you can find about him are basically rehashes of his tweets.
Interestingly, if you go to his Twitter feed today, all the real-time Woolwich
tweets have been deleted. The Rodney King-like call for everyone to just get
along is still there; everything else is gone.
Here's his header & feed from the 23rd; all the tweets have disappeared (& as of this writing, he has 25,051 followers):
So I don’t know what to make of it. Like Twitter
itself, it’s pretty much just out there.
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