Twitter could be banned in the UK

Twitter has come to the attention of MP George Galloway, who thinks it should defer to the wishes of local authorities or be sanctioned by the government.

Galloway, Member of Parliament for Bradford West, has filed an early day motion called "Twitter and the detection of crime".

These early day motions are formal things. It doesn't flow well, so we've cut it down a bit. "Twitter is now a very widely used mode of social networking; is a US-based enterprise whose primary motivation is to maximise its profits; Twitter is now used for a variety of criminal activities including sending malicious communications," it says