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Twitter Clampdown Could Impede Anonymous Tweets

Posted by samzenpus on from the 140-decent-characters dept.

judgecorp writes "Twitter is going to clamp down on abuse and 'trolling' according to its CEO Dick Costolo. Actions could include hiding replies from users who do not have any followers or biographical information. The difficulty is that moves to stop trolling could also curtail the anonymous Tweets which have been useful for protest in repressive regimes."

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  1. So web 3.0 is here? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Since we didn't like what some individuals were saying in our "web 2.0" model we are now turning it into solely a broadcast medium for celebrities to promote their projects and plug their endorsements, and the "popular" to spew their random 140 character thought fragments that nobody with a brain cares about in the first place.

    What could go wrong?