AIBU to feel upset that a well known journo sent me a shirty tweet?

[Siane]

I follow someone who I find amusing and likeable but recently tweeted her for giving away the ending to a series on telly (watching on sky+).
We've exchanged many tweets over the years and I sent a low key grumble but got a nasty lob back.
Ffs- I've felt all snubbed all week. Am I daft?

Aitch - you know, if JR took issue with me, I would be genuinely scared.

Never heard of India Knight but I know who Emma Kennedy is; she wrote the funny book on camping AND she was in an episode of Jonathan Creek... therefore she is royalty!

I was really surprised on Twitter the other day when the usually lovely Robert Webb from Mitchell and Webb started to be incredibly petty about some poor non-sleb who had accidentally revealed the ending of a book to him. Webb tweeted his name and had a mildly poisonous little rant. EXTREMELY embarrassing for the non-sleb, who was very mature and polite about it.

It was just like a little row on MN except that one party just didn't care that he was doing it under his own name with hundreds watching, and exposing a non-sleb to an intense glare.

Hhmmm I'm really not sure I'm any the wiser...

LeBof - I have no idea who Rhodri is but that is rather nice.

The miners coming up was a good event, wasn't it?

What on earth are you all saying on twitter that is getting such nasty responses?

And animula- blocked?

I've never even followed India Knight. Isn't she just some random that writes dieting books?

OMG Rhodri Morgan - I didn't think you could mean him. Not someone I ever imagined twittering and what not.

i believe that was the intention, animula. it wasn't a friendly email.

Wait. Emma Kennedy has done a moonwalk????

That's not something one does in space then?

Oh dear, Calatalie.

Do you think it's because some celebs are prone to the sort of stupid, impulsive nastiness that sometimes grips me -- and then regrets it later?

there is a huge power-imbalance there, though. And it's not anonymous.

Very nice that he hugged you though!

India knight is probably reading this now. I'm sure she is on MN. Come on India give us a sign. BTW I do enjoy her/your columns.

I think perhaps sometimes people forget they are tweeting, thinking they are texting someone (i.e. one-to-one), particularly if they use their 'phone to tweet.

You're lucky, I got retweeted to a Dutch animal rights MP because I made a joke about eyeing up the wood pigeon and thinking 'lunch' after watching Masterchef.

Think no more on it... too many egos, and if a journalist can't take a polite criticism, meh. Tough.

I rembember that Jon Ronson thread Aitch. It was one of the first threads I read on MN and I adored it. I remember reading a Ronson column about being talked about online (before I ever discovered MN) and I wondered later if it referred to your discussion of him on MN. He used to do the kind of inconsequential My Life as an Islington Self-Deprecator columns like Tim Dowling does now.

yes animula, I think it is just the random nastiness that we are all prone to online, but the sleb forgets his/her artificially increased power, like when the Six Million Dollar Man accidentally crushes something with his bionic hand.

lolol at six million hand, that's it exactly.

tim dowling, for example, proved to be A Very Good Sport about being a cunt.

@ "Six Million Dollar Man" analogy.

Far better than him sitting there in his underpants, Doctor Evil face on, squeaking "Power!!!" and laughing maniacally.

aitch - that is creepy, wrong, weird and deeply yuk.

Aldiwhore-that has just made me rofl to bits. And Calatalie- you're right. They forget ..

She wrote a book about shopping that I really like. Proustian. but shorter.

I like Tim Dowling.

although cat, i actually disagree re the forgetting. i think often they very much enjoy flexing all five of their six million dollar fingers and do it precisely because they can.

do you know about him being a cunt, though, dodie? (was it cunt or wanker, i can't remember. i wasn't responsible.)

Ah, so not just dieting, shopping also. I have shortchanged her.

Wasn't Tim a twat for example rather than a cunt? I like him too. And he is nice on Twitter. Could do with rather less of the banjo though.