Police Make A Right T1T Of Tweeting

[Gromit]

Toby Young, Daily Telegraph columnist was on Newsnight last night to discuss offensive tweets. During the show, Police Scotland tweeted [Young] "had made a right tit of it" .

Strange and slightly sexist language from an official Police source.

In response, Mr Young tweeted:
"Just had to block @policescotland, the official police Scotland twitter feed, for abusing me on twitter. This is getting weird"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-23517872

(Note that the BBC apparently unwilling to report what they had tweeted)

Should public officials and politicians be banned from tweeting?

[Sharingan]

God no! They're hilarious. How else are they supposed to make millions of people at once aware of what utter dimwits they are?

[tonyav]

Should public officials and politicians be banned from tweeting?


I think everybody should.

[mikey4444]

I am not sure about banning them but if they can make such childish remarks, on a public forum, then I would question their intelligence in the first place. Shouldn't they be thinking about their actions a little better and setting a good example ?

[ludwig]

Bizarre. I'm with tonyav on this. I think the whole thing's pointless.

[EcclesCake]

I don't have a problem with Government bodies using social media.

On this occasion I think their Social Media policies and practitioners need serious reviewing.

[LazyGun]

Anyone calling Toby Young a Tit is a hero and is being smartly humorous, given his ridiculously mysogynistic post about a female MP back in 2012.

Watched his performance on Newsnight, putting up the weakest of weak defences over how to police some of the more offensive comments against women. Gutted, Flayed and Filleted by Stella Creasey.

[jno]

I think he's a right tit, though I'm not sure if it's sexist or not - for all the sense it makes, it may refer to the bird. (And "right" must mean "real", not "the one on the right-hand side".) And let's face it, he's blocked them for fairly minor criticism, which it seems he can't take.

The problem sounds more like access to the @policescotland account, which (I presume) is intended for official communication rather than personal jibes.