To get the name/location of this blog "out there", I created a Twitter account and decided to tweet about Lanzarote.
Thus far, I'm following 10 people and have 5 people following me. Not great figures after almost a month in the Twitter-sphere, though admittedly I haven't tweeted that much.
I can only conclude that many people on the island have better things to do than tweet themselves and read the tweets of others. This is probably a good reflection of Lanzarote. Why would anyone want to sit in, logged on to the Internet, reading about life in Lanzarote, when they could be out there living it themselves?
The number of Lanzarote tweeters is tiny compared to the population of the island as a whole - similar to Ireland and the UK, one imagines. Of those who do tweet, you'd have to guess that they are logged on to the Web as part of their job anyway. Again the same as Ireland and the UK.
This situation is reflected in those who post on Internet forums also. They (we!) represent a small section of the overall population. There's some consolation in this fact for anyone who innocently asks a question on an Internet forum and is ambushed (and usually insulted, to boot) by the regular posters on that forum. Unfortunately, I've seen this behaviour on both the Discover Lanzarote and Lanzarote Gazette forums. It does the forums and the island itself a great dis-service.
Perhaps the world of Twitter offers a more useful "forum" for those newbies who are looking for information about Lanzarote and every other kind of info they might seek.
Perhaps I'm not finished tweeting just yet :-)
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