Now half the leaders of the G20 have Twitter accounts and 70% of all Tweets hail from outside the U.S. In the London riots, those 140 characters proved a nuisance.
In other words, the putative remedy for the eurozone that was negotiated just five days ago in such dramatic circumstance - and which was supposed to be the definitive and final word on the subject - is in danger of disintegrating even before it goes before leaders of the G20 most powerful economies on Thursday and Friday for their blessing.
The German papers portrayed the G20 meeting of world leaders in Mexico as the G19 against one - with no prizes for guessing who the solitary stand-alone was: Germany, in the personage of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
World leaders have welcomed the outcome of the G20 summit and pledged to make progress before a second summit in April.
Prime Minister Brown wants a strong commitment from fellow leaders of the developed world at the G20 summit next month, but many are more concerned about their own economies than the state of Africa.
Earlier reports on Friday said G20 leaders spent much of the weekend in the resort French town discussing just how to lend billions of dollars to Europe through the IMF.
Mr Calderon's state visit immediately precedes the G20 gathering of world leaders in London.
And finally, since many of the leaders here were also at the recent G20 summit, we continued our efforts to get the global economy to grow faster.
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We're surely going to see some of that on Monday, at the G20 Leaders' Summit.
It helped focus efforts leading into the G20, where European leaders came together in advance of Cannes to lay out a plan of action.
The World Bank says that, since the G20 leaders last met in November in Washington, DC, 17 of their countries have restricted trade.
The data come ahead of a G20 meeting in Washington, in which leaders of advanced nations will meet with their emerging market counterparts to discuss ways to stem the global financial crisis.
At Los Cabos, the G20 looks forward to hearing more from the European leaders on the progress of their efforts to stabilize their banking system and promote growth, and to hear what their vision is for taking this effort forward toward fiscal and financial union.
Not to be outdone by the G20 summit, Silvio Berlusconi says the summit will encompass leaders representing 90% of the global economy, with 40 countries and international organisations expected to attend.
On Wednesday, the prime minister said Britain was working with world leaders towards a "global deal and grand bargain" to deal with the economic downturn ahead of the G20 economic summit in London in April.
So is it safe to say that an option to boost IMF resources is off the table at this G20 summit, and rather leaders are talking about technical aspects of IMF, how IMF can help Europeans?
They did that at the last G20, in Cannes, where President Obama sat down with a number of eurozone leaders, EU leaders, and had a longer dialogue after the dinner.
In the hope of shifting the conversation away from currencies, South Korean officials have been pushing the idea that G20 leaders embrace goals for current-account surpluses and deficits at the Seoul summit.
At this week's meeting of G20 labour ministers in Washington, DC, with union leaders also present, Mr Georgetti was struck by the militancy of his counterparts from Spain, Greece and Turkey.
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