Life is tweet, says the UK’s former deputy prime minister John Prescott, as the number of people in the UK using Twitter reaches 10 million:

Twitter is OUR media, the public have become the news editors and the Twitter trend list is the running order.

It’s given me a voice and a connection to millions of people that the distorted prism of the mainstream media denied.

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Pope Benedict XVI launches the new Vatican website with a tweet sent from an iPad. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Pontiff sends tweet to officially announce Holy See’s new site is open for business for followers everywhere

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