Janet Fouts

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Twitter and DMCA violations

Janet Fouts

A little while ago people were making a fuss about freelance author @RunOlgaRun who noticed a joke she posted on Twitter being shared without credit. She asked Twitter to take it down as a violation of her copyright and they responded by replacing the tweet in violation with the text. The tweet below was shared by user @PlagiarismBad.

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App dot net- It’s not Twitter

Janet Fouts

Initially the company set their fees at $50 for a year of service, but on October 1, 2012 they hit 20,000 users and lowered their prices as well as introducing an introductory month for just $5. The difference between ADN and Twitter. When you look at App.net initially the website itself looks like a stripped down version of Twitter.

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Facebook’s Grand Experiment #Fail or….?

Janet Fouts

From Facebook board member Marc Andreessen simply suggesting we either : a) get over it or b) don’t use Facebook in a discussion about it on Twitter and suggested it was no different than A&B testing an ad, to Pando Daily saying the company is more powerful and un-ethical than we thought. Should we wait around and see?

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