If it’s a hot political issue in Scotland, you can bet @TannadiceLad is (not) tweeting about it. BF_STATIC.timequeue.push(function () if (BF_STATIC.bf_test_mode) localStorage.setItem(‘posted_date’, 1409066058); ); BF_STATIC.timequeue.push(function () document.getElementById(“update_posted_time_3428908″).innerHTML = “posted on ” + UI.dateFormat.get_formatted_date(1409066058); );
1. With less than four weeks until Scotland’s historic independence referendum, Brian Taylor, BBC Scotland’s politics editor, is a busy man.
He’s been appearing on TV screens daily, as well as updating his blog. He’s a well-respected and experienced journalist, having reported on Scotland’s referendums in 1979 and 1997 for The Press and Journal in Aberdeen.
2. He even did the ALS ice bucket challenge over the weekend, after being challenged by first minister Alex Salmond.
3. But one thing Taylor doesn’t do, despite joining Twitter in May 2012 as @TannadiceLad, is tweet. At all. Ever.
He follows 700 people and has somehow managed to gain almost 4,000 followers himself, all by saying nothing at all.
4. He has more followers than OneTweetPete, who, as the name suggests, sent just this one tweet, back in 2011.
Everyone talks about “going green” lately. The only time I go green is on a long sea voyage! Well, this has been alot of fun. Bye Twitter.
5. You can search far and wide for sight of an elusive @TannadiceLad tweet, but none are to be found.
7. This means that people – particularly Ern Malley – have been able to list all sorts of things that @TannadiceLad SHOULD reveal on Twitter.
#ff The man behind the Daft Punk helmet: @tannadicelad – he reveals all on his twitter feed
Can"t believe @Tannadicelad is the next Dr Who – you"d think he"d have kept it under his hat though.
9. There was the time @TannadiceLad summed up the glories of England’s football team this summer.
Incisive tweeting by @tannadicelad summarising all of the good things Steven Gerrard did in the first two England matches.
10. Tweeters have often referred to his “withering responses” to current issues on Twitter.
P=NP @neelypeel Paxman says twitter is for people with “nothing going on in between their ears”. Fellow BBC journo @TannadiceLad has a withering response.
11. Some people appear to think that he deleted all his tweets for some reason (he hasn’t).
Jim @jafurn50 @TannadiceLad What has BBC"s Mr Brian Taylor been up to that he doesn"t want anyone to see…he"s apparently deleted all his tweets. #oops?
12. One running joke is that he has posted loads of tweets, but they were all so controversial, he had to immediately delete them.
Jared Earle @jearle @loveandgarbage You could tell @TannadiceLad was a man of principle when he deleted all his old tweets.
Read more: http://buzzfeed.com/patricksmith/tannadice-lad
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