I have to say I agree with Rob. Twitter matters only to those who use it imo. It's latest 'victim' is Coleen Nolan, apparently, but her performance on Loose Women led to Ofcom receiving 7,000 complaints about her bullying behaviour. In my opinion complaining about being bullied on Twitter is somewhat ironic therefore.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45439569
That is interesting.
I don't know what the viewing figures for 'Loose Women' are as opposed to those for a rolling news programme such as Sky news ... Ofcom received 7,000 complaints.
Do you know how many complaints were received about Martin Brunt's interview with Brenda Leyland?
Sixty ...
Sky News report on McCann ‘troll’ prompts complaints to OfcomRegulator receives 60 complaints about reporter confronting woman over abusive tweets about McCann family
The regulator Ofcom has received 60 complaints about Sky News’ report about the woman alleged to have tweeted abusive messages about the McCann family.
Brenda Leyland was found dead in a hotel room days after she appeared on Sky News as part of an investigation into internet “trolling” of the McCanns.
She was not named by the Sky News report but was interviewed by reporter Martin Brunt as someone who “uses Twitter to attack the parents of Madeleine McCann”.
Brunt and his team took precautions such as not naming the village where Leyland lived and Brunt referred to her only by her Twitter name, @sweepyface. However, she was subsequently named in several newspaper reports.
Most of the complaints to Ofcom are understood to have been made in the last couple of days, rather than in the immediate aftermath of Brunt’s report on 2 October.
An Ofcom spokesman said: “It’s important to stress that we’ve not reached a view as to whether an investigation will take place.”
Meanwhile on a Facebook page called Sack Martin Brunt, a petition has been launched calling on prime minister David Cameron to “launch a public inquiry” into what it claims is “trial by television” had gained 325 signatures.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/oct/06/sky-news-ofcom-complaints-mcann-troll