UK Conservative leader David Cameron has created a storm in the mainstream media and on Twitter following an on-air interview on the Christian O’Connell Breakfast Show on Absolute Radio (disclosure: I’m Digital Marketing Manager at Absolute Radio).
In the interview he was asked about his views on Twitter, and responded with the view that ‘ too many twits might make a twat’ – due to the instantaneousness of microblogging, and the need for politicians to think about what they were saying.
See the original interview:
The main response in the mainstream media has been based on the swearing during a live broadcast – Cameron used both the term ‘twat’, and the term ‘pissed off’. Meanwhile on Twitter, many messages show that users are presuming Cameron in fact called Twitter users ‘twats’.
Cameron has now apologised for his use of swearing during the interview.
