Given the immediacy with which Twitter, Facebook and other social media tools can deliver the news to pretty much all corners of the globe individuals should stop and think for a moment.

Case in point, would you want your impending divorce broadcast from Australia to the U.S. and all points between and beyond?

According to a web developer from the Boston Globe, he had the pleasure of listening to just such an event while parking himself in a local Boston Burger King.

As the story goes, Andy Boyle was enjoying his meal while a nearby couple was discussing plans to end their marriage. So, likely learning from the writers and columnists he works with, Boyle began to tweet out the discussion, which included both video and photos.

The verbal tug-of-war between the couple continued with Boyle providing the following exchanges:

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If you are starting out using Twitter then you may be wondering what all the fuss is about, but once you get going on it, it can be quite addictive, so to help you have a bit more fun with Twitter here’s a small collection of sites or Twitter Tools that you may like.

If you are looking for new friends then Mr.Tweet is a great little site that will act as your own personal networking assistant with Twitter. All you have to do is follow Mr.Tweet and then you’ll recieve a DM (Direct Message) suggestions and more on good Twitters to follow. This is one of my favourite Twitter Tools and it’s just so easy to use.

For organising your new followers etc then try out Tweepler. With Tweepler you can allocate Tweeps in to two buckets, those to follow and those to ignore, very simple, but effective, even has a more option to find out more about the Tweep.

Tweetlater is a site that some people use and rave about, yet some don’t like it. Tweetlater not only has the options to tweet at a future date, but also allows you to choose from options such as autofollow new followers, autounfollow those that unfollow you and also the option to vet new followers.

A fun site to use is Twitter Grader, this site takes you Twitter name and grades your Twitter profale with info such as overall rank, followers, following and updates, it will also show you a tweet cloud and recommend other users to you.

And finally a site which I find very useful is Twitter Counter, this is a great site, not only does it give you information on how many followers you have, predicts how many you may have the next day, it even show how many follow and unfollowed you. Best of all you have the option of adding a Twitter Counteer to your own website to show everyone how many followers you have

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