IN the case of Twitter users versus the British judicial system, it appears the tweeters have won.

A gag order imposed by one of the country's top judges has been flouted on the social networking platform, by members of the news media, and now by a parliamentarian who has revealed the name of a soccer player involved in a sex scandal.

Soccer star Ryan Giggs had been granted an injunction preventing media from publishing allegations that he'd had an affair with reality television contestant Imogen Thomas, but over the past few days his identity has increasingly appeared across the internet, leaving newspapers to chomp at the bit as Twitter users swapped jokes about the sportsman's alleged indiscretion.

The journalists knew. The soccer fans knew. Even Prime Minister David Cameron knew, telling morning television it was "rather unsustainable where newspapers can't print something everyone else is talking about".

Read more of the AP story at The Australian ....