Singing sensation Susan Boyle is apparently suffering a cash crisis, after her management restricted her ability to withdraw her earnings.
The singer is living on just £300 a week, despite a 10-million-pound royalties pot, guarded by her managers. Boyle is not allowed to withdraw extra cash from the bank and she cannot even buy furniture for her new home. The Britain’s Got Talent superstar cannot use a credit card; she is forced to shop for dresses at Tesco and travel by bus.
“When Susan realised she can’t just walk into a bank and take out her own money she had a fit because she thought she was down to her last few quid,” the 49-year-old singer’s brother Gerry Boyle said.
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Japanese user claims 20 billionth tweet
Tokyo: Twitter’s 20 billionth message didn’t make much sense, but it spoke volumes about the rapid global growth of the microblogging service.
It came at 12.44 am on Sunday morning from user “GGGGGGo Lets Go” in Japan, where Twitter has exploded in popularity over 2009. The San Francisco-based company estimates the Japanese send nearly eight million tweets a day, about 12 per cent of the global total and second only to the United States.
The tweet itself is hard to decipher, since it appears to be part of a longer conversation between two users.
“So that means the barrage might come back later all at once,” wrote the declared graphic designer and avid fan of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows baseball team in Japanese. —AP