Twitter is rapidly becoming part of the UK political landscape, with MPs, ministers and even Downing Street keeping in touch with the increasingly savvy electorate through 140 characters or less.

Even more impressively, it seems to have emerged from the preserve of geeks into the very centre of political communication in a little over six months. Tweetminster’s Alberto Nardelli charts the rapid rise in 10 key milestones.

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