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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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Julia and Jeff have done pathbreaking work uncovering the obscure tech that impacts our lives, from Facebook's formerly-secret content policies to the biases within software marketed to courts to generate "risk scores" for bail. I can't wait to see what they do as @team_markup. twitter.com/JuliaAngwin/st…

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@Pinboard Including the 21st Amendment’s blockchain rollback.

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In 1947, an invitation to join the recently-formed Harvard Law Wives: "We hope your husband has seen our notices on the bulletin board." In 1950, HLS's first women LL.B. students join the class of '53. From the HLS Library's current exhibit, exhibits.law.harvard.edu/spic…. pic.twitter.com/IvtzozdVmY

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