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.

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