Parliamentary chairwoman wants end to Twitter

Parliamentary chairwoman Gerdi Verbeek has called on MPs to stop using the microblogging service Twitter during parliamentary debates.


Verbeek said the stream of messages was making it impossible to manage debates and the ‘stream of opinions’.

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