If the twit label sticks, then nothing he does will peel it off again.

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Better yet, what about the same video stream and chat window on a mobile app such as on the Twit Network?

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Yet, the discomfort Secretary Rumsfeld caused seemed to delight most Americans, only too pleased to have an opportunity to twit the sanctimonious Old Europeans and their devotees.

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Hodgman gets all the laugh lines, and Mr. Mac comes off as the smug little twit.

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Dahl's books are full of the grotesque, from Mrs Twit substituting worms for her husband's spaghetti, to child-eating giants in the BFG, and the hero of Danny the Champion of the World drugging pheasants so that they're easier to poach.

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Hulot, the French bureaucrat in charge of holidays, is a twit who should be fired forthwith.

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Unless Mr Hague can improve his image, he is in danger of reaching the position that whatever he says or does is interpreted through twit-tinted spectacles.

ECONOMIST: Twitchy times for William Hague

The opinion polls do not test whether Mr Hague is regarded as a twit.

ECONOMIST: Twitchy times for William Hague