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F-T: Don’t sue over tweets

November 26th, 2012 | by z | published in Future of the Internet, news, twitter | 7 Comments

I just published a short piece in the F-T in the wake of legal threats against users who tweeted or retweeted a link to a BBC report of child abuse that turned out to be wrong. Here’s the full text — Those who didn’t see the false child abuse accusations against Lord Alistair McAlpine on […]

Breaking the 140 barrier

June 24th, 2009 | by z | published in Future of the Internet, twitter | 8 Comments

Twitter only allows 140 characters per tweet. The founders explain that they expected interconnection with mobile phone text messaging — SMS — from the start, and that it could be expensive to have longer tweets broken into mutiple messages when people pay per SMS. As Dom Sagolla explains: Messages longer than 160 characters (the common […]

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@dandrezner @WSJ Have you seen any account of why Russia is participating in the grain deal, rather than trying to stymie Ukrainian commerce or solely stealing what grain it can itself? What’s in it for Russia, when Russia shows so little quarter elsewhere in the war?

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@joshtpm It could really benefit from a functionality to import existing Twitter follows. Not trivial to map between namespaces, of course.

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