How Twitter changed the world
Updated on 19 June 2009
The online social networking service, Twitter, has a new fan: Gordon Brown. And, as Krishnan Guru-Murthy reports, the prime minister believes it has changed foreign policy forever.
"Foreign policy will never be the same again" and it is all because of the Twitter revolution according to Gordon Brown.
For those who have not tried their hand at Twittering - it is a free social networking service that enables you to send short messages across the internet. And its newest fan is Gordon Brown.
In an interview in tomorrow's Guardian the prime minister says:
"People have now got the ability to speak to each other across continents, to join with each other in communities that are not based simply on territory, streets, but networks; and you have got the possibility of people building alliances right across the world." This, he said, has huge implications.
"That flow of information means that foreign policy can never be the same again.
"You cannot have Rwanda again because information would come out far more quickly about what is actually going on and the public opinion would grow to the point where action would need to be taken."
