Politicians given wake up call by tweet

POLITICIANS have long lived with the threat of being voted, heaved or impeached from office but could the day be looming when one of them faces the humiliation of being tweeted out of a job?

To those who doubted the relevance of the humble tweet, this week’s Twittergate affair has been not so much a wake-up call as a wake-up dunking in an ice-cold shower with Megadeth blasting out of the waterproof radio.

No longer simply the plaything of garrulous youth (Lady Gaga is, after all, the world’s most followed Tweeter), the tweet has proven its power by bringing to heel in a single day a head of Government who had managed to brush off criticism from the mainstream media for over two years.