TECHNOLOGY What is the difference between swine flu and a UK parliamentary question? You have at least some chance of stopping swine flu spreading round the world.
Micro-blogging website, Twitter, is as effective a virus as any in circulation – as Trafigura, the commodities trading company, and its libel lawyer, Carter Ruck, have discovered. They tried to stop a parliamentary question being published; it was spread instead through tweets, and the legal gag became futile.
