What's Being Said on Twitter

Reactions and responses to the U.K. phone hacking hearings on Twitter. Refresh the page to see the latest updates.

  1. Millions and millions have been spent recently on parliamentary security. And still a pieman gets through! #hackgate
  2. "Proactively." Rebekah and James have been reading the same vocabulary builder.
  3. RB Intent on grouping all newspapers together as being part of the same climate of blagging. #hacking
  4. Time for the hysteria to be taken out of this, surely. Many people here feel it has all got a bit out of control.
  5. Tom Watson tells Rupert Murdoch "your wife has a very good left hook" after she tried to defend him from foam pie
  6. Superb questioning by Watson, Mensch and Farrelly. Good day for select cttee system.
  7. Culprit throws a plate of cream in Rupert Murdoch's face then says *quietly* "you naughty billionaire". Wendi hit back even harder!
  8. This was a global event and a high fibre moment of exposure: trivulised by a man with a pie
  9. Piers Morgan tweets that attack will swing PR Murdochs' way.
  10. Werndi wasn't only awake she slapped some character who appears to have gone at Rupert with a custard puie: British farce invades US tedium
  11. breaking news, Demonstrator attacks Rupert, Wendi and James try to protect him. Hearing suspended.
  12. RMurdoch on prime minsters:"I wish they would leave me alone." Funniest line of the hearing.
  13. Murdoch hearing has now been going on for 93 minutes, half an hour longer than scheduled. Chm says still much to get through.
  14. Murdochs say no decision has been made to launch new Sunday newspaper - no immediate plans. But options are open
  15. The trouble is MPs want to go at Rupert but James has the detailed answers. Drama over substance so far.
  16. R Murdoch on NOTW closure: We felt ashamed of what had happened and had to draw it to a close...We had broken our trust with readers
  17. Tom Watson is very good at this. Rupert Murdoch is very good at playing the part of a doddery old man.
  18. Murdoch Snr interrupts Murdoch Jnr to say "this is the most humble day of my life"
  19. Yates says he is convinced that a small number of police officers will go to jail.
  20. "It wasn't due diligence in the due diligence sense" John Yates to select cttee
  21. US media now making link UK media coy to make: "Cameron under pressure to step down" (CNN)
  22. "I am going because I'm a leader" Paul Stephenson. And we are not much the wiser.
  23. Stephenson: says he doesn't have the identity of the unnamed No 10 official, says he thinks best to ask Yates... the plot thickens #Hackgate
  24. Stephenson says "we should be grateful" that Guardian ignored his assurances in Dec 09 and kept on investigating

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