DID you see that Tweet this morning? No?

If you didn’t, you’re in the majority - but I wonder if you sometimes feels like a minority.

Talk of Twitter is everywhere. Newspaper websites can build stories about what a celebrity has tweeted or a tweet that has gone viral.

When reporters write stories they often take tweets and use them as a bellwether of public opinion. Radio phone-in shows do just the same, reading out tweets on air.

So much is made of the social media platform - and yet only a minority of Scots actually use it.

But it feels much more. It especially feels much more when you're an active user, as I am. I check the site continually during the day - using it for news, conversation and to share my work.

While it feels like an occupational hazard (I probably wouldn't have an account but for my job), it's easy to get caught up on the site. That's a flaw in how journalists use Twitter - we forget there's a bigger world outside and that the views bouncing around our little echo chambers might not be the views of the wider population.

It can feel particularly smothering when you find yourself the subject of a Twitter Storm. A couple of years ago I was trolled on the website. I had hundreds of abusive tweets directed at me, none of them fit for repeating in a family newspaper.

One, which said I "deserved to be shot at point-blank range" among other worse things, was sent by a young chap who had his place of work in his biography. That was pretty quickly solved by flagging the tweet up to his employer.

I reported others to Twitter - rape and death threats, one that shared my home address - and the site did nothing. Last week Amnesty International published a report - backed by Ruth Davidson, Kezia Dugdale and Nicola Sturgeon - suggesting that Twitter hasn't moved on much since my experience and doesn't do enough to protect women.

But the experience of women day-to-day on Twitter, I've found, really isn't bad. Your average Twitter user isn't targeted by abuse and I'd hate for women to be put off opening accounts by the horror stories.

Abuse tends to be focused on well-known women and female politicians. It's always amazed me, given the high profile of the women who do suffer badly on Twitter, that the site hasn't acted more swiftly and sharply to deal with trolls.

It really must improve its track record of supporting those who are suffering abuse. Not just for female users but also for young people for whom the real world and social media worlds are far more entwined than for my age group.

I found, during my own Twitter Storm, that I wasn't as bothered by tweets as I was by the abusive phone calls and emails I received. I couldn't get too bothered by an anonymous entity whose opinion I don't care about sending me 140 character insults.

Hearing a voice, though, was another matter. That felt real. The distinction between real life and social media life is becoming increasingly blurred and for young people what happens online is just as real as what happens in school.

So better protections from bullying are definitely needed.

But, while I am not taking responsibility away from the perpetrators of online abuse, we need to take more control by using the mute and block buttons.

Bullies are looking for control and attention. While we wait for Twitter to sort out its issues, we can take some control back. Mute and move on.