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How panic spread on social media in the Philippines when a media report misleadingly uncovered a 鈥榝lesh-eating skin disease鈥� and then linked it to an apocalyptic prophecy made by an Indian holy man.

More than 20,000 people have followed a Twitter account set up by Oscar Pistorius's PR team - just days before the start of his murder trial. But what will the implications be for the course of justice itself? Could this be the first trial by social media?

And acclaimed novelist Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials, joins twitter to tell the story of Jeffrey 鈥� a fly. He tells us why he can鈥檛 kill this character off.

And what鈥檚 the appeal of #TwitchPlaysPokemon 鈥� the game that everyone plays and no-one controls?

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