Engagement of Prince William ‘announced’ on Twitter

Turns out Twitter is fit for a king-to-be’s decree. The big news this morning is that Britain’s Prince William and his girlfriend Kate Middleton are engaged to be married. The announcement came this morning via an official press release, but that release was “somewhat scooped by the accompanying  tweet that distilled the official confirmation of the first major royal wedding of the new millennium into a 148-character (yes, a tad long) social media post,” according to The Wash…