2010: The Internet Election that Wasn't

‘It was Twitter wot won it.’ Or was it? As Andy Williamson reports, new media was not the political game changer many commentators had predicted. Twitter, Facebook, blogs: 2010 was supposed to be Britain's first ‘internet election’, but, in the end, it was the televised leaders' debates that really captured the public imagination. As Andy Williamson reports, new media played an important part in the campaigns but was not the game changer many commentators had predicted.