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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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@sadiehillier Pleased to support. Where do I sign?

About 2 hours ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

The strange thing about it is that the line is blurry between just assigning a final grade and calling that final grade a “prediction” of what a “real” final grade would have been. I guess the big differences are the bizarre attempt to use statistical modeling, and the secrecy. twitter.com/random_walker/…

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The IB program curtailed its school year and canceled final exams. Instead of letting grades be what they were at the time of the shutdown, or using a simple and generous formula for deriving final ones, they employed a secret statistical method to “predict” final performance. twitter.com/maria_axente/s…

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states, united. has a nice ring to it. concept worth pursuing. twitter.com/nygovcuomo/sta…

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