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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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@internetofshit @buttondownemail Hadn’t realized it was existing! Tried another one and got the ambiguous messages of “Success!” and “Somethjng exploded on our end.” Thoughts and prayers.

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Article 13 is up for a vote this week in the EU. This thread explains what makes it so ill-considered — and why part of Wikipedia and other sites went dark in protest. twitter.com/eff/status/110…

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It’s like shooting the moon in Hearts. A company’s ongoing security practices so awful, the breach so large and the sensitivity of the material so personal, that the journalists alerted to it realize it’s irresponsible to name and shame. motherboard.vice.com/en_us/ar…

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