The youngster's behaviour is bad, but I think a dragging over the coals and a last warning may be sufficient. Didn't read it all mind you as my brain went numb. Usually believe in giving kids a chance to change.
I don't know where to start. I'll just say that all the people criticising twitter don't seem to have a very good understanding of what it actually is.
The fact that the moron mentioned in post 2 is from East London says it all...
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Pass the football.
I know exactly what twitter is, and that is why I hold the views I do.
Blaming twitter is the equivalent of being beaten up buy a thug with with a cricket bat and blaming it on the bat.
Twitter is simply a method of communication not really any different to the telephone. In of itself it is not inherently good or bad it is as good or bad as the people using it. Twitter has been used for many good things such as helping to accelerate the social protests in Arab Spring countries that are now going through a democratic process as a result. It can also of course also also be used for anyone to spout useless and sometimes offensive drivel. However that is not twitter's fault, that is the responsibility of the person spouting the drivel. People like this need to be educated that once you put something out there on twitter et al it is in the public domain and cannot be taken back. Don't need to get rid of twitter we need to get rid of idiots, East London seems a good place to start right now...........

Not the case, I have lots of real life friends on twitter and it's a common form of communication between us. Much like Facebook is to some people.The only way that Twitter can actually be a useful means of communication is if you're a celebrity and there are lots of people who want to know what you have to say.
Yep, but some of us enjoy the rumours.If you substitute "this bloke down the pub told me" for "this was just tweeted by some bloke" then I think you have the measure of the veracity of most of it.
Blaming twitter is the equivalent of being beaten up buy a thug with with a cricket bat and blaming it on the bat.
I think you've hit the nail on the head SKTB. We seem to do that in this country. A man goes on the rampage with a pistol, we ban pistols. No wonder we're in such a sh*t state.
Twitter, no good can come from it. Hope our lad is okay tonight.

I agree that it has done some good. Uniting people in their fight for democracy is obviously a wonderful thing. But I don't agree that it's just another method of communication like the telephone. For 99% of people it's just a way of talking to yourself, passive-aggressively spewing about your "problems" or letting everyone know what you had for dinner. The only way that Twitter can actually be a useful means of communication is if you're a celebrity and there are lots of people who want to know what you have to say, but then for celebrities this is just another way of getting in the tabloids. If I was a footballer, I definitely would not use Twitter. Only bad could come of it.