Week in Review: Election continues, Twitter gets serious

Election

The election continues to rattle on, especially online. The televised leadership debate was followed by many online, and the conversation is set to continue on Facebook and YouTube, as well.

The Conservatives were awarded top prize for worst performing website, while hacker Gary McKinnon's mum is set to run against Jack Straw.

And public sector CIOs - and our columnist - want the Government to be more ambitious with IT.

Twitter gets serious

Twitter kicked the week off by picking up iPhone client Tweetie, saying it would stop charging for the app and rename it Twitter for iPhone - catchy, that.

Then, Twitter finally unveiled its business model. It will charge for so-called Promoted Tweets to stay on top of searches, so everyone looking at that feed will see the ad first.

Announcing that the site has hit 100 million users, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said "money is important" to the firm.

Tweets are seemingly important to future generations, as the US Library of Congress has decided to archive all public messages on Twitter.

Best of the rest

An Adobe evangelist told Apple to screw themselves, a sentiment likely echoed by many in the UK after the firm delayed shipments of the iPad to these shores.

Adobe itself unveiled the latest edition of its Creative Suite.

Facebook boosted online safety, but refused to install a 'panic button'. And Google picked up Plink, its first UK acquisition.