Yesterday, the Dutch central bank took control of DSB Bank after a run on the institution that appears to have been fueled by "tweets" on Twitter.

The FT reports that this weekend, talks to sell the privately-held bank to a consortium of the five biggest Dutch banks failed. Wouter Bos, the Dutch finance minister, blamed DSB, stating that the "problems at DSB Bank were not caused by the credit crisis. This is a single, relatively small bank that got itself into trouble because of its own policies, the departure of its customers, unclear communication and all the uncertainty that that caused.”

Dirk Scheringa, the owner of DSB, disagreed, and accused the Dutch authorities of leaking suggestions “that the bank was bankrupt” on Sunday night. This led to postings on Twitter that quickly caused a bank run, he said.

There are several articles on the role of Twitter in this matter in the Dutch press today, but even with Google Translate I can't make much sense of them (see these stories). Anyone have additional insight on this?