Political live debate

Like many new ventures this one found its way to me through the social networking website Twitter, from Toryradio. The venture in question is http://tinyurl.com/y9ctdbq this allows anyone who wants to take part in an online debate on any issue in which they choose. Toryradio's choice of topic happened to be Channel 4's Tower block of commons, where those involved with the conversation would comment and answer polls about the antics in the programme. This application has proven successful for other political debates such as Question Time or PMQs.

There has been a great deal of commotion over the alleged comments from David Wright Labour MP for Telford who posted defamatory comments about the Conservative Party yesterday via his Twitter page. Wright said that his twitter account had been hacked by a Tory (Why anybody, especially a Tory would even consider hacking a twitter account, particularly Wright's is beyond me). The original can be seen on the BBC Website, humorous thing is that Wright claimed he edited his post, yet Twitter states you cannot edit posts. The suspicion is very high on this, however I'm sure Twitter would have a database of each tweet created, as well as the IP address of the user, therefore revealing the location, name and ISP of the user - surely this will solve the argument. The fact that Wright also re-tweeted the comment by adding his own personal touch creates even more intrigue - if you were not guilty of the tweet, why would you then go ahead and re-tweet it? surely you'd delete the comment and be done with it. Wright finally posted the following statement on his twitter page in regards to the incident

"What a commotion today. Looks like my tweets have been tinkered with. I will keep you posted"

Doesn't like someone who's particularly acting upon the situation, has he reported this to the twittersphere? I doubt it, he say it wouldn't make a difference or that he doesn't know who hacked his account. He really ought to come out and make an appearance about the comment and set the record straight if he really is innocent!

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