The BBC Radio 2 site, which gathers messages, or “tweets”, from presenters such as Chris Evans, Jonathan Ross and Alan Carr, has no followers. The BBC Radio 5 Live site, run by presenter Victoria Derbyshire, has just two.

The mistake they made was to confuse followers with following. Both accounts have follower counts in the thousands. It’s a really bad mistake that a major newspaper should have noticed. Especially when the article was written by TWO journalists. This fundamental lack of knowledge is concering. Two journalists writing for a newspaper clearly don’t have enough knowledge of Twitter to know the difference, which is concerning in and of itself. But the fact they didn’t even bother to research it properly? Unforgivable. UPDATE: What’s even worse is that whilst they clearly recognise that they have made a mistake, instead of admitting this and apologising they have simply removed the article, showing a fundamental lack of knowledge about social media. You can’t just make a mistake and try to ignore it by deleting things any more. Especially not in the era of Google Cache. Thankfully it is not indicative of all mainstream media. The BBC, which, contrary the Expresses clearly bias article, actually uses Twitter very well, with different accounts for different types of content. What do you think, do you know of any of cases of the mainstream media just not getting it?

It’s easy to see why they are doing this, the more friends you have on Facebook, the more likely you are to log in and the longer you are likely to spend using the site. The bottom line equates to more page views, and in turn, more advertising revenue.

Whilst this tool will likely be popular with those new to the site, looking to find friends they have long since lost contact with, it could prove annoying to long standing members who are already annoyed by Facebook suggesting friends for them, or suggesting people user’s don’t want to be friends with.

So, what are your thoughts, did you appreciate the suggestion box? Or did it annoy you?