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PRESENT TENSE:YOU MOST LIKELY haven’t heard of a guy called Raju Narisetti. He’s an editor at the Washington Post, looking after the features content and its website. And he was on Twitter, with about 90 followers. For a guy of that stature, that’s not a lot of followers at all. Spam alone should have doubled that figure. If you stay around Twitter for more than a couple of weeks you find that there are many lovely young ladies who want to be your friend, writes SHANE HEGARTY

Anyway, he doesn’t have his Twitter account any more, because he used it to express a couple of mild opinions about the US health care debate and an age limit on politicians. After that, he made a “decision” to stop tweeting. Although, it seems, the decision was made for him, because the Washington Post’s ombudsman wrote a column this week which came across like a parent dragging a kid by the ear and explaining to a teacher that the little blighter has seen the error of his ways and will not be naughty again.