Anybody on Twitter will have noticed the huge #welovenhs debate over the last few days following the rather uncalled for attack by US Republicans, who were trying to bring down Obama’s healthcare reforms. If you want the whole story, the Guardian will tell you all you need to know in the article it published today.

As a French national, I certainly don’t think the NHS is in any way perfect (and nor is the French healthcare system by the way, for those of you who may think I’m partial!), but I must admit I am quite taken by how proudly the Brits on Twitter have responded to the attack. After all the United States have more than 45 million people with no health insurance at all: that’s nearly 16% of their whole population! Anyway, this isn’t what this post is about. I just wanted to draw attention to how social media is changing the way people are able to voice their reaction to an event. With the twittervese leading the charge, comments are flowing on news sites like the Guardian (see link above), and at least one Facebook group has been created so far. A proper demo of cyber-citizenship!