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Obama has more than 24,000 followers. Hillary has just a little over 3000. And from this side of the pond we have the British jumping on to the microblogging bandwagon. The Guardian reports that Gordon Brown has just got himself a Twitter account. It does take a bit of imagination though, to picture somebody like him punching away furiously at his cellphone keying in his latest tweet. He looks like the sort of bloke who couldn’t operate a brolly without the benefit of an instruction manual. What one’s really looking forward to now is Her Majesty following suit with soul-baring posts like “dying for a pizza”, "felt like biffing Cowface Camilla between the eyes…again” and “by George, the new Radiohead CD really rocks”.