2012-01-30 (Monday)

A new record for my Guardian iPad app: 8 crashes today! Each time losing my place and asking me to resubscribe. Given up on today's issue.

@alicebartlett Who’s @abscond?

@revdancatt Is that the intern? Is there some nepotism involved?!

The good folks at MySociety are hiring a full-time web, mobile and print designer to do good things: bit.ly/wgC2gB

@gwire People on my local forum, complaining about nighttime police helicopters, have again started hoping nice, quiet drones arrive soon.

@csi_popmusic @katylindemann @chrislunch @megp Not cos I don’t care but because I’ll see it on the site when I’m ready to listen to music!

@csi_popmusic @katylindemann @chrislunch @megp I suspect I’ve already blocked that hashtag as I didn’t see whatever it was :)

@csi_popmusic @katylindemann @chrislunch @megp I don’t care about football, but am fine with Chris tweeting about it because it’s *him*.

@csi_popmusic @katylindemann @chrislunch @megp That’s the problem: these aren’t people, they’re computers on behalf of people.

@csi_popmusic @chrislunch @megp But it’s the auto-generated, personality-free boring tweets that are tedious.

@chrislunch @csi_popmusic @megp Especially if you already follow them on This Is My Jam. And if you don’t… you’re not interested anyway.

@chrislunch @dracos linked to this guide to Twitter clients that let you block things bit.ly/xVm6o3

@moleitau Who wouldn't.

If the question is "Should someone earn £1 million, £2 million or £8 million pounds this year?" the answer is "No".

One day my daughter will learn that the melody of the made-up lullaby I sing to her every night is actually the theme from Robocop.