TexchXav reports that a British High Court has used micro-blogging service Twitter to serve an injunction against an anonymous Web user who used the platform to impersonate someone else.
The report goes on to say
The court order demands that the Twitter user reveal his identity and stop posing as Mr Donal Blaney, a right-wing political blogger who blogs at a site called Blaney?s Blarney.
The Twitter user had impersonated Mr Blaney, owner of law firm Griffin Law, by using a Twitter account at BlaneysBlarney. The court oder states that the Twitter user breached the copyright of Mr Blaney, who termed the action as ?mildly objectionable?, the BBC reported. The fake Twitter account, which is not owned by Mr Blaney, also uses the same picture the accompanies his legitimate blog site, which has added to the confusion
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See the report and links to the offending tweet at? http://techxav.com/2009/10/02/british-court-uses-twitter-to-serve-writ/
