CNET UK Podcast 158: Can Twitter change the world?
On Crave Podcast 158, Nate, Flora and Ian discuss what has been a massive week for Twitter -- not only did it reach its 5 billionth tweet, it also helped Britain castigate a journalist who put some homophobic nonsense in her newspaper column and bring an abusive London Underground employee to justice. But we know not all of you love Twitter, so we didn't mention the micro-blogging site at all until our special feature.
News
Windows 7 launches, some customers in the UK get it early
BBC Trust turns down iPlayer sharing plan
Google upgrading music search
Sky launches on Windows Media Centre and Xbox 360
Crave
New Macs and some lunatic mouse thing
BlackBerry Bold 9700
Feature
Our special feature this week is all about Twitter, but we think with some justification. In a single week, Twitter was offered $500,000 for a single, 24-hour ad banner, was used to bring swift justice to an abusive Tube employee and highlight a nasty little piece of homophobia. It also reached its 5 billionth tweet too, which is quite an achievement. We asked if this is all just hot air, or can Twitter change the world for the better?
Your votes, as always, were a major part of the show. You can see the results, look at the comments and even vote yourself if you haven't already.
WTF
This week we were slightly bowled over by a man who wrote a custom level of Super Mario World to propose to his girlfriend. This has to be the ultimate geek proposal, and we salute him for it. We also wonder what the wedding will be like...
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