I tweeted a joke about Drew Barrymore’s tiny TV – and caused an international incident | Rebecca Shaw

With a lot of good people leaving Twitter, it now apparently takes less for a tweet to find the recesses of the awful

Twitter/X began its death throes some time ago and is still thrashing about, slowly sinking into internet quicksand like Artax the horse in The NeverEnding Story (sorry to my fellow millennials for reminding you of this). It feels very small now - its reach is limited and engagement is noticeably down as more people jump submarine.

So I was taken by surprise last week when a tweet of mine got me involved in an international incident.