Incoming yesterday afternoon, this:
@6000 Please may I use one of your tweets in a PopLeveson tweets book, full details at popleveson.com/6000
— Peter Gill (@42nd_Tweet) October 25, 2012
And what was PopLeveson?
Well, Peter reminds us here:
#PopLeveson was the Twitter hashtag game played, initially, amongst the extra-mural audience to the Leveson Inquiry as they enjoyed the spectacle of ex-News International chief executive, Rebekah Brooks, jousting with Robert Jay QC, purveyor of exquisitely turned questions.
It being a Friday afternoon, not every boy in the Remove was centred fully on legal nuance. Wags compared Mrs Brooks’ eye-catching locks and those of the singer Mick Hucknall. From down under, a tweet wondered if “Rebekah Hucknall” mightn’t yet sing a verse or two of Simply Red’s Holding Back The Years.
Soon hundreds, then thousands more questions were picking legal holes in lovingly-regarded rock and pop lyrics. In Court 73, Lord Justice Leveson broke for the weekend … without effect. #PopLeveson was trending and enthusiastic tweets urged followers to “Stop whatever you’re doing and follow #PopLeveson”.
The game wound down and ended on Monday morning. By then over 25,000 unique tweets had been posted along with almost innumerable re-tweets.
Looking back to May (via google) I can find two efforts of mine:
Mr Boogie, the witness statement absolving Mr Sunshine, Mr Moonlight & Mr Goodtime leaves you in an awkward situation, no? #PopLeveson
— 6000 (@6000) May 12, 2012
and
I put it to you Mr Harket, that we may all enjoy solar warmth, with or without the presence of television cameras. #PopLeveson
— 6000 (@6000) May 12, 2012
The former works best for me, but whatever – permission granted!
Peter plans to publish on Kindle, with, he hopes “a paperback to follow”.
I’m really looking forward to enjoying #PopLeveson again.