Sense-of-humour failure over spoof Merkel tweets

As European leaders rise and fall, the euro twittersphere, too, saw one of its heads of state fall from power last week. Twitter, for reasons still only known to itself, suspended the account of one @Angela_D_Merkel, who had garnered more than 26 000 followers through her idle whimsies on the financial crisis and other matters of world import. The ersatz Chancellor has now been reinstated, as @Queen_Europe, with her following in tact. Mock Merkel said a ‘government’ had complained, and that “suspicions point to a certain outgoing pint-sized President.” @berlaymonster awaits its cease-and-desist order any day from the real monster of the Berlaymont building… BM