I’ll start by sharing with you the thoughts of fellow twitterer Tom Smith @everythingabili: “All those issues us liberals care about, but don’t actually bother to DO anything about, are finding a home on twitter. About time!”

It feels like almost every day for the past seven days the UK twitter community has been alerted to an injustice by one of its members and the tidal wave of protest that has followed has swept aside anyone in the way.

On Tuesday a ‘super-injunction’ gagged The Guardian but as the PR nightmare blew up in its face Trafigura became the top trending topic on twitter and the company, which has been dumping toxic waste off the coast of Africa, instructed its lawyers to back down.

Friday we had the abusive tube worker which you can now watch on the BBC but initially came to light in a blog and the tale of Jan Moir in the Daily Mail, who wrote about the death of Stephen Gately.

Boris Johnson stepped in to engage the twitter community directly and pledged to launch a full investigation, but the fall out of the Jan Moir story was wider reaching.

Following several high profile tweets from @derrenbrown and @stephenfry, the Press Complaints Commission’s website crashed as 21,000 people logged onto register their complaint about the article. The Daily Mail removed advertising from the online version of Jan Moir’s article after tweeters bombarded the advertisers.

Twitter changed things.

Yet a planned flashmob outside the offices of Trafigura lawyers Carter-Ruck only attracted “half of the promised 25 protesters“. A rather poor showing when you consider the millions of people hashtagging the word just days before.

Perhaps though this demonstrates the essence of the twitter protest. I don’t doubt that all the people who tweeted opinions and links really did care about the issues that arose this week but we’re all a little too busy to protest in person which has been the traditional method of making your voice heard and your presence felt by the powers that be.

Maybe twitter is the future of protest, maybe a twitter trend is the new march.