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Twitter Users Banned For Violating Intellectual Property?

**Posted:** Wed Aug 27, 2008 2:15 am

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konamouse

Isn't this what caused Ariock to become Ari0ck on Twitter?

**Posted:** Wed Aug 27, 2008 9:49 am

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Jas0n · Decorated Joined: 19 Aug 2006 Posts: 244

I wonder if just how detrimental that could become. What if someone sends twitter a notice such as that without any actual legal basis, and twitter takes them down?

**Posted:** Wed Aug 27, 2008 1:53 pm

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tweez · Greenhorn Joined: 22 Aug 2008 Posts: 7

It looks like the Mad Men characters are back on Twitter.

**Posted:** Wed Aug 27, 2008 2:44 pm

vpisteve

All I know is that Betty Draper is now following me on Twitter, and she's dreamy!

**Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2008 1:41 pm

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**Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2008 2:05 pm

vpisteve

Stephen Fry?! I am SO jealous!!

Oh wait, no I'm not!!

**Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2008 4:48 pm

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I will step up and say Stephen Fry is dreamy.

He will just never say the same of meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

**Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:45 pm

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rose · ...and then Magic happens Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 4117

Twitter doesn't have ready access to lawyers? Holy cow.

I guess the intellectual property issues are easy for them to resolve - big company or someone with a lawyer complains, take down the account.

Further reading on Twitter makes it seem they have bigger problems with scalability and user retention. Some people (wrongly I hope) say twitter can't survive. I guess we will see how this works out over time.

**Posted:** Sun Oct 26, 2008 8:33 pm

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vpisteve

It's the old MySpace dilemma. While Twitter is horrible (getting better, but still horrible), that's what everyone is using, despite there being tons of better and more stable services out there. I'd use Brightkite in a heartbeat, for example, but only have 4 or 5 friends who are using it, so it's basically not useful at this point.

Dunno

**Posted:** Mon Oct 27, 2008 12:56 pm

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**Posted:** Mon Oct 27, 2008 1:50 pm

jamesi

**Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2008 10:16 am

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**Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2008 12:01 pm

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