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Juror Tweets Could Create Mistrial
nandemoari writes "Russell Wright and his construction company, Stoam Holdings, recently lost a $12 million dollar lawsuit brought by investors. But lawyers for the firm have complained that juror Johnathan Powell's Twitter comments broke rules when discussing the civil case with the public. The arguments in this dispute center on two points. Powell insists (and the evidence appears to back him up) that he did not make any pertinent updates until after the verdict was given; if that's the case, the objection would presumably be thrown out. If Powell did post updates during the trial, the judge must decide whether he was actively discussing the case. Powell says he only posted messages and did not read any replies. Intriguingly, the lawyers for Stoam Holding are not arguing so much that other people directly influenced Powell's judgment, rather that he might have felt a need to agree to a spectacular verdict to impress the people reading his posts."
I prefer using the preexisting terminology for Twitter users, "twit".
Powell says he only posted messages and did not read any replies.
Sounds like your average day on slashdot.
I find the term annoying myself. I'd have a lot easier time taking the thing seriously if it had a name like SMS-over-IP. If I pitched it as a campaign avenue to my 60 year old boss, I'd get a response something like "If we're going to send our customers "tweets", we might as well go all out and send them fart blossoms or some other made up nonsense."
Forgive my spelling from time to time. I'm often posting during short breaks.
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You should've called it twatter.
And let me tell ya, you definitely can't believe everything written on the 3rd floor mens' room stall door. (Oh, and Carl - if you still read /., I'm like so sorry about ...well... you know. I just kinda got the impression you were totally into it.)
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
I like acronyms. How about we call it Fast And Really Tiny? All you FARTers will love FARTing on each other!
Microblog posts will be called "toots." Larger posts will be known as "dumps." The website infrastructure will be described as a collection of Advanced Stratocumulus Servers, and this particular form of cloud computing will be referred to as occurring "in the ASS."
I swear to god, if IANALBIHBAJ becomes a new internet slang, it will be the greatest day ever.
Yeah, about 2/3 of the reason why they were angry is because the fan was broken and it was hot in there.