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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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Speaking of algorithmic bias, autocorrect is convinced I wanted to talk about algorithmic boas instead. (Thanks for the artisanal uncorrection, @mdaviswilson!)

About 10 hours ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

A terrific short essay about computer-driven algorithmic boas vs. “artisanal” human bias, by a scholar who’s done pathbreaking work revealing both. I don’t agree with the conclusion that tech-embedded bias is more tractable, but this well anchors the tech-optimist view. twitter.com/m_sendhil/stat…

About 10 hours ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

@lauraolin Thanks for all the effort that goes into making those dispatches sing!

Yesterday from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

@paulkrugman Same as, say, the phishing emails “from” XYZ Bank, hoping to reach at least some people who happen to have accounts at XYZ Bank. When such people click and “log in,” they are giving their credentials to the scammer.

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

@lauraolin or @clairewaves's exquisitely curated roundups, tinyletter.com/clairest/archi….

About 2 days ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter Web App