Building on the success of Gaelic Twitter Day new online networks of Scottish speakers are emerging…
[English below] Tha faisg air seachdain air falbh o chionn tòiseachadh Latha Twitter na Gàidhlig agus thathar a’ dèanamh beagan rannsachadh a thomhas am buaidh gu lèor air an latha siud. Chaidh toraidhean eile air foillseachadh dà latha air ais. Thathar a’ fàs soilleir gu bheil ceanglaichean ùr eadar luchd-cleachdaidh Twitter na Gàidhlig agus thathar a’ faicinn gun deach cleachdadh den taga-hais #Gàidhlig suas dà thuras ann an comais le seachdain ro-làimh Là Twitter na Gàidhlig. Bhiodh e math leantalachd an treand seo fhaicinn; agus gus sin a dhèanamh, tha e cudromach gu bheil daoine a’ cleachdadh an taga-hais #Gàidhlig ann an gach tuit a sgrìobheas iad agus a chum a’ dol leis a’ Ghàidhlig nuair a cuireas iad tuitaichean a-mach. Gun teagamh, tha e cudromach cuideachd a chumail ann an conaltradh leis na ceanglaichean ùra a rinn iad air Là Twitter na Gàidhlig. Tharraing Latha Twitter na Gàidhlig tòrr duine…
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AN SIONNACH FIONN 
Ah, that so long and noble a history should end, not with a bang, but a twitter …
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The times we live in. Adapt or die?
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It’s just I’ve never really seen the point of Twitter (and such a daft name anyway) apart from organising events at short notice and providing verbal live-feeds for ongoing situations. Oh well, that’s just me I suppose 🙂
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Plus, as the recent referendum in Scotland proved, the opinions of the assembled Twitterati do not always match those of the real world vox populi. It can be quite misleading. The Scottish case has given me a good lesson. Though that said all those “Yes” signs and posters plastered all over Edinburgh didn’t help either. My brother, my on the ground Scots reporter, was convinced a Yes vote was in the bag. He still can’t quite believe it. He has yet to meet a “No” voter in Scotland…
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The same story is being told by people who knocked on doors in this place or that, they rarely met a NO voter and were surprised by the result. Were so many people ashamed to be seen as NO’s? Also no obvious visible enthusiasm for the NO side, supporters having to be bussed in from England by the Labour Party etc. You can see why there’s so much disquiet about possible rigging of the vote, whether that really happened or not.
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