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The problem with your TwitAir example is that you have substantially changed a number of aspects of the message. Your version of events threatens a specific flight for instance - making the threat somewhat more within the realm of credibility. It is something that might conceivably lay within the abilities of a lone nutter. Chambers' post on the other hand is clearly a joke. He clearly doesn't have the ability to take out an airport - and the post is clearly a jokey comment expressing his frustration with the airport being closed. Indeed, his "demand" focusus on something that the airport has no control over whatsoever - the weather. It was, is, and ever shall be clearly a joke. So, had TwitAir been flying from Robin Hood Airport and I had encountered Chambers' tweet, would it prevent me, my parents, my wider family from flying? No - it wouldn't. Also, I have no idea what your level of experience with the Twitter site is, but I think you may have misunderstood the nature of the public timeline. Just because something is posted there is does not mean that the wider public get to see it - merely your folllowers. True, the wider public may learn of your post by using the site's searching functionality, but I don't think many of the world's terrorists are in the business of expecting their victims to actively search for news of their diabolical schemes... Again - It. Was. A. Joke... Martin

5-Dec-2010

10:21 am