First is the fact that UK mobile telephony operators are mean penny-pinching, money-grabbing, profit-mongering, con-artists, who refuse to negotiate a free mobile telephone number with Twitter as it firstly might reduce their massive profits, and secondly other UK companies might try to weasel a free phone number out of them on principle in an attempt to rip them off. This is the true face of UK business as a whole: This is still “Rip-off-Britain”: Everyone; even big business, is out to make a fast buck at the expense of someone else – No matter who they rip-off or how.

Why? This is the legacy of the Thatcher years; the “Yuppie” culture – The massive class-divide between the very wealthy and those on or near the breadline: The UK is, as a whole, a very sick society, built on an obsolete and outdated structure – But that’s another story.

Secondly; and in relation to the comments in the above; the Web 2.0 phenomenon is just not happening in the UK in general: The society is insular; “me first, screw you”. The gross level of poor education and unnecessary needless ignorance is increasing at a worrying rate; while the average IQ appears to be plummeting towards zero as a whole. Adoption of technologies and moving forward / adapting to new ideas are difficult in a society where many can’t even write their own name and most can just about manage to switch a computer on and send email in some base primitive English dialect with almost as many grammatical and spelling errors as there are words.

Britain is stuck in a rut due to itself; and to my mind seems destined to annihilate itself from a societal standing.

- The moral of all this spiel: If you don’t see many UK Twitter users; or if you don’t see many sensible/intelligent UK twitter users, then you’ll know why.

The UK: Proving evolution by reverse-engineering it.