Kanye West joined Twitter a few weeks ago, and has decided to follow just one person, a young student from Coventry called Steven Holmes. At first Steven was happy, but five thousand followers and countless messages later from Kanye’s 400, 000 followers he is sick of all the attention. To many it would sound like a dream come true – a famous person seemingly interested in your life, thousands of people now intrigued by you, centre of attention in tech news – however Twitter is filled with members of the general public who are annoying at the best of times so receiving hundreds of badly spelt and often hateful messages from them can’t be much fun. It’s not all bad though as he’s been offered some free Irn Bru.
No doubt it will be worse tomorrow now the papers have featured his story, and 4chan will soon be on the case to make his life even worse. Still – I would put up with constant messages saying ‘DON’ T H8 APPR8′ and ‘NO OFFENSE DUDE BUT WHO ARE U AND WHY IS KANYE FOLLOWING YOU’ for some tasty fizzy Scottish goodness.
