twitenomics! The economy according to the people of the Internet.

Oh Internet, I do so hope that you aren’t censored. Why? Because with out the Internet we would not get the privilege of seeing what the world’s most opinionated people, like me, have to say about current affairs.

We begin, as ever, with the BBC’s extensively interactive Internet news. Whether its interactivity is a good thing or not remains to be seen, but with such comments on their website as gettingstarted’s, on the topic of Megaupload’s removal, a topic which has got the online world in flame. Gettingstarted compared the issue of having strict laws emplaced on the web to King Cunut saying the “big companies are like King Cunut, trying to stop the tide. Except that they’re not kings. But they are Cunuts.” This comment was the BBC’s highest rated that day and with a cheeky reference to calling the recording industry the most fowl swear word; this can hardly surprise one. Despite this unity shown in here, the Internet’s case is worsened by TuRbO-DD who used all his brain power to formulate an educated response to the news of hacker group Anonymous hacking the FBI. “NERD ALERT! NERD ALERT!” nice to see people some people aren’t affected by possible security issues isn’t it?

On Facebook many people were discussing the same issued. Michael Madz pointed out that “if someone commits murder the gun maker isn’t sued” while Frederick Roman Millan Cuchufleto got straight to the point with “it really sucks!” Rob Snow got all disturbing and threatening when saying that the government is “afraid of an intelligent, well informed and connected population” later remarking “their time is coming.” I don’t know whether Rob Snow is implying that in the future we’ll get rid of governments, or something, but I doubt that and am generally baffled by his insinuation that the government both hates the public and will pay penance for its sins.

On Twitter, however, it was business as usual. Richard Branson posted a video of a new technique for incentivising senior employees and Theo Paphitis offered six small businesses of his choosing the opportunity to be retweeted by him, thereby giving them promotion and hopefully more traffic.

Politics wise, Ed Miliband mentioned how “youth unemployment now stands at over 1 million- when the PM boasts about rising employment; it shows how out of touch he is.” After my following of political tweeting I have now realised it’s yet another place for politicians to insult one another. The PM was busy, although, with his Co-operatives bill, saying it would “build a fairer economy” and also mentioning how he planned to “restrict the cash element of bonuses in all state-owned banks to £2,000.”

That was a long Twitenomics, but I could not sign out without a brief appearance from our wanna be economist. Today’s person was  Chantelle Hought, former Big Brother who took the time to advertise her brand new “eyelash range” apparently they “stay on allll day!”