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Tony La Russa Drops Suit Over Fake Twitter Account

in News on July 7, 2009 at 6:00 pm PT

Score one for Twitter in the legal battle over who is responsible for stopping social media imposters. In May, St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa sued Twitter after someone created a bogus account in his name that featured his photo and what he called “derogatory and demeaning” remarks.

Twitter’s Identity Problem Lands It in Court

in Media on June 3, 2009 at 1:28 pm PT

On the Internet, as the joke goes, nobody knows you’re a dog. And on Twitter, nobody knows if you’re a “real” celebrity who’s decided to start using the service, or an impostor. That could turn out to be a business opportunity for the Twitter guys, but right now it’s a problem, in the form of a lawsuit filed by St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa
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