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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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@SoSmileOrDie @bendreyfuss Or making the first batch of beer.

About 8 hours ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

The first paper builds on work by @zephoria and @MJGolebiewski's around "data voids," when there's niche and then growing interest in a topic on which search engines have little to offer -- ripe for content hijacking. "Crisis actor" is an example. pic.twitter.com/A9CK15jTlP

Yesterday from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter Web App

See also An Xiao Mina's recent essay on "midinformation," when experts remain uncertain, at @meedan, meedan.com/blog/missing-i…. @GyenesNat, @jessannhuang, and @JennaC_Sherman are also working on these issues.

Yesterday from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter Web App

Here's the paper by @jennyjfan, @RafiqCopeland, and Tanay Jaeel. Really interesting (and worrying) visualizations of how people find information online around rapidly unfolding events, where authoritative answers are few. datavoids.2020.bkmla.org/#Par…. Part of bkmla.org twitter.com/marcambinder/s…

Yesterday from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter Web App

@mwbrault @illyrianfields @nicholas_bagley To be sure, unless it’s about reconciliation-routed vs filibuster-surviving legislation, any law can be turned off with the four words or equivalent of “this law is repealed.”

About 3 days ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone