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Sending @injunctions via Twitter?

By Ira Nathenson on October 1, 2009

Reuters reports that the High Court of Britain has ordered an injunction to be sent via Twitter:
Britain’s High Court ordered its first injunction via Twitter on Thursday, saying the social website and micro-blogging service was the best way to reach an anonymous Tweeter who had been impersonating someone.
The order will appear for the recipient the [...]

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Comcast and the creepiness factor

By Ira Nathenson on July 24, 2008

I’ve written before about the “creepiness factor,” the uneasy feeling some get when they realize their blogs and social-networking postings are read by “unwanted” visitors like police, employers, professors, etc.  Add to that list corporate America.  The New York Times writes about Comcast’s efforts to reach customers complaining about it on blogs and social-networking sites.  [...]

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Twitter microblog

By Ira Nathenson on June 30, 2008

Marty Schwimmer reports that Southwestern law professor Michael Scott is using Twitter to post microblogs of articles on copyright law, internet law, and privacy law.
That’s a fantastic idea, and one that solves the problem of what to do with interesting reads that are worth pointing out, but for which I don’t want to write [...]

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