To me it's interesting that this shows just how dangerous Twitter can be to people as their social brain just can't properly comprehend what it is. 20 years ag

To me it's interesting that this shows just how dangerous Twitter can be to people as their social brain just can't properly comprehend what it is. 20 years ago, the lawyer would have told his wide's friend and she'd have gossiped it to a few other people and 5 years later it would have eventually been a well known secret that would be occasionally alluded to by the columnists of the papers. Rowling could still remain tantalisingly stum and no-one would be much the wiser. Instead she says it on twitter which feels like a fairly intimate gossip to a few choice friends but in fact is massively public and boom, consequences for the Law firm, the lawyer and huge public embarrassment for the friend. From a social point of view, the friend was just acting as she'd have acted 20 years ago, but technology is so different now that a simple piece of gossip has had very different consequences.