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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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