Nobody knows for sure how and why the first soccer league was founded. But one theory, further supported by Spaniards’ big success in the realm, suggests that a Spanish king liked the idea as he thought the league will attract the attention of citizens and leave the king the valuable space to manage the country with less criticism. I wonder what that king would think about twitter. It could paralyze the attention span of a regular follower easily with the constant stream of information, most of which is irrelevant for the reader.

In Turkey, a while ago, people started to recognize a pattern in government’s price increase decisions for electricity, gas, and other municipal services. Whenever a football team (mostly Galatasaray) beat an important international opponent, letting the people flock into the streets to celebrate, very few people would read about the price jump in gas prices in the next day’s newspapers as the rest would proudly spend hours reading the columns about the soccer triumph. I wonder whether the same government officials are making evil plans about using Twitter’s paralyzing pace of information flow to help citizens "digest" the bad news.