Just heard a story about Twitter via The Financial Times.
The story centres on an incident in Germany that has been dubbed "Twittergate" - no originality there!
What it concerns is a Twittering German MP who broke the news of the new German Prime Minister via, you guessed it - by "Tweeting".
Here's an extract from the article:
The news that Hörst Köhler had been elected again on Saturday was published on Twitter's micro-blogging service almost 15 minutes before the result was officially announced.
Julia Klöckner, of chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU, told her Twitter "followers" that afternoon: "People, you can watch the football in peace. The vote was a success."
Kelber, of the SPD party, was even more specific, prematurely uploading the result of the vote-count to his micro-blog: "The count is confirmed: 613 votes. Köhler is elected."
Klöckner has since resigned.
See Twitter furore in Berlin as MPs leak poll result (by Chris Bryant, Bertrand Benoit and Tim Bradshaw) for more details
The story centres on an incident in Germany that has been dubbed "Twittergate" - no originality there!
What it concerns is a Twittering German MP who broke the news of the new German Prime Minister via, you guessed it - by "Tweeting".
Here's an extract from the article:
The news that Hörst Köhler had been elected again on Saturday was published on Twitter's micro-blogging service almost 15 minutes before the result was officially announced.
Julia Klöckner, of chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU, told her Twitter "followers" that afternoon: "People, you can watch the football in peace. The vote was a success."
Kelber, of the SPD party, was even more specific, prematurely uploading the result of the vote-count to his micro-blog: "The count is confirmed: 613 votes. Köhler is elected."
Klöckner has since resigned.
See Twitter furore in Berlin as MPs leak poll result (by Chris Bryant, Bertrand Benoit and Tim Bradshaw) for more details