How the 2010 election will be won by blogs and tweets

At the last election, in May 2005, social networking sites were known to few. Facebook was largely unheard of and Twitter had yet to be invented. YouTube had been in existence for only three months. Blogs were in their infancy and political bloggers, now hugely influential in the flow of news, had yet to evolve. All parties used email, but beyond that the internet remained undeveloped as a campaigning tool.

Election 2010 will show how much the world has changed – and how susceptible election outcomes now are to the unpredictability of events online.

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