I often wake in the middle of the night, with what I imagine at the time to be a game-changingly insightful or brilliant train of thought suspended in mid-air in front of me. I’m immmediately gripped by panic, worried that I might lose it if I don’t get it down. So I flip open my MacBook and start typing furiously. When I’m done, I get back in to bed, and am usually asleep again within a few minutes.

I have about three hundred of these frantically-recorded night-time memos now. Here’s one of them.

How bda could things get if social networking turned nasty?
the major engine of destructon could be the recession
in a recessuibm cult-0liuke cgroupd form around certaub individuals
exciting at first
as in evey pyramid scheme, the btrsk poiny srrives
how could beple use twitter to wreak havoc in the sreets
could Teitter be used as an instument of ctimr, ettort,m  twitter
rumors srtrrt of a salr in an oxford st sotore which is mnot relas big dicounts ptomised
rivl stores employd twittered to =do it
talk of huge surprisie discounts
certain people hav been given tweets with info
some staff in on it – believe it
ma7ybe eve =n some of the management
discount not materialise
riot
 
“city markry guru”
usese twitter to broadcast predicutions
aciting oon inside informatiob first 2 times
third time del talking down stocks so he canbuy at t tht loest point
 
How Twitter could spiral out of control
Factional at present, bit mpt int he sense of occoping campes: thse are veast interlocoking netweorks ofr like and lyalties that a re sometiges inf conflict.
“I really like him, as a person, but I read he blog vbery fght qinf
fractiuring of elleigances eeven in 1to1 peronsal reaptionshops
 
beceuase breviously your 1on1 partner got jut oner verion of you – now they get the whole public perona
I becomes impossible to tell a lie. Oj e slip, a tweet from the bous as ou’re waiting to arrive t your destination, and the firends your ditchingt will lnow what they were dumped for