Yesterday the Dutch television channel RTL organized a political twitter debate. Most political party leaders participated but politicians, Dutch tweeps, as well as RTL’s servers became overloaded (and again #rtldebat became a world-wide trending topic). Instead of only splitting the debating screen between politicians and other participants, it might have been wise of RTL to have politicians only answer the most retweeted tweets (the way we analyzed the #iranelection tweets). By having people retweet what they deem important or good questions, the intelligibility of the debate might have been greatly enhanced.