"It's a stop!"

Journalism I was on Twitter for #trafigura on Monday morning and once again I was reminded that the service is at its best when everyone is talking about the same thing (other examples being elections and Eurovision) and that it's far more than just a micro-blogging service. Here, Alan Rusbridger sums up events:

"It took one tweet on Monday evening as I left the office to light the virtual touchpaper. At five past nine I tapped: "Now Guardian prevented from reporting parliament for unreportable reasons. Did John Wilkes live in vain?" Twitter's detractors are used to sneering that nothing of value can be said in 140 characters. My 104 characters did just fine."

Or to paraphrase Bill Nighy's editor character in TV's State of Play, "It's a stop!"