Twitter has become a very important part of a lot of people’s lives and we have all learnt to use Twitter for all sorts of different reasons. You simply can’t escape Twitter whether it is finding out all about the breaking news before everyone else or watching a television chat show and watching with delight as a well known celebrity texts through to their profile.

Many people have spent years wanting to communicate with celebrities and this has provided them with their big chance....

So you’ve created the best profile you can and you’re developing a good following. But now you want to step it up a notch and create your very own Direct Message but what on earth do I put on it?

There is very much a mixed reaction about Direct Messages and over the last eight weeks I have experimented with many of them. Every single person that has followed me (10,000+) has received a DM from me and only one person out of 10,014 has complained.

[U]I got a sarcastic...