Why the British Never Tweet
Leave it to the British to devise the most indirect method imaginable of addressing a simple customer service issue at Twitter. The BBC reports that “The High Court has given permission for an injunction to be served” on the micro-blogging service. It seems that an anonymous trouble-maker, perhaps of a somewhat leftist orientation, has been using Twitter to impersonate a conservative blogger called Donal Blaney, who posts at a site called Blaney’s Blarney. Mr. Blaney complains that this imposter’s Tweets are “mildly objectionable,” which — translated from British — apparently are fighting words. As the BBC explains, “Mr Blaney turned to Twitter to serve the injunction rather than go through the potentially lengthy process of contacting Twitter headquarters in California…
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