The journalist tweeting for ZDNet Australia was Liam Tung (@liamt) and I'm the news editor for the site, I'm at @renailemay. You can follow the trial tweeting on #iitrial.
Thanks for this. very nice to know, should be very informative to watch on a play by play basis.
Curious
· 1 month ago
How did your decision to tweet the court case come about Renai? Quite innovative.
Diane Schreifels
· 1 month ago
Twitter is twitter and that is it. I am really on the fence on this one. Could depribe some authinticity in tweep blogs.
Jerry Zambrano
· 1 month ago
A very interesting practice, especially the precedence it may establish globally. I agree on the "right to be fully informed of proceedings", I just hope that twitterers (tweeters) won't abuse this in "closed" proceedings, thus establishing yet another precedence for judges to take a more active banning of tweets from the court room.
Sherri
· 1 month ago
No! The public does not need to know what is going. Some things should be kept out of the public view. Would you want your Dirt to be known? Think about.
Review Unit
· 1 month ago
My goodness.....the whole is kind of addicted to TWITTER....now its not people...its tweeple....its not messages...its tweets....social networking is going big each day..
Derek Jensen
· 1 month ago
I feel that the use of twitter in courts should not be used, because no one really needs to know what all goes in the court room, but I could see the judge, lawyer, or recorder making a summary tweet after court.
I do think though that Twitter could really be used for community involvement in cities, but not in courts.
genevadirt
· 1 month ago
If it is a public courtroom, anybody can be there....so why should Twitter be kept out? If it is closed then the judge will not allow.....I do not see the problem.
Name
· 1 month ago
This would be an exceptional way to take minutes and record it. Please do not give me any ideas. Thats all I need is to be thrown out of the court room for tweeting. Now if I take the 1st amendment than Reporters and Media can attend. I will charge at the door for admit tance. Thanks,
Jim Moss
· 1 month ago
Some judges allow you to tweet in the US. Most don't even allow cell phones in the courtroom. One judge I'm in front of regularly takes any cell phone that rings. Not just for the hearing, forever.
Name
· 1 month ago
want to read tweets, alternatively disturbing and scintillating, from a journalist covering a murder trial? follow @jamiescoop or search #cntrial.
ddr2
· 1 month ago
If judges want to control their court rooms they will need to be on top of things. I think to a certain extent that is already happening at least in the bankruptcy courts. Since they have been pioneers with use of e-filing, e-signing of orders, and other technology, many of them are very computer literate.
Virtual Miss Friday
· 1 month ago
Wow is this serious - whatever next!
Autumn St John
· 1 month ago
I don't see the problem with tweeting in courtrooms as long as it's on cases that are going to be reported by the traditional media anyway.
nathanmirolo
· 1 month ago
Interesting that we are experimenting using Twitter in more fashions than just keeping our friends up to date with our lives. But now Twitter is being used as a way to keep reporters up to date with the happenings behind the closed doors of a courtroom? I guess Twitter is as versatile as a swiss army knife.
Ken
· 1 month ago
When the Mayor of Ottawa went of Trial, the judge allowed twitter in the courtroom: @obrientrial. It provided a well updated stream of information to the public, without having cameras.
There are at least six journalists tweeting live from a federal courtroom, in the corruption trial of Birmingham's mayor - and the judge included it in jury instructions:
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The journalist tweeting for ZDNet Australia was Liam Tung (@liamt) and I'm the news editor for the site, I'm at @renailemay. You can follow the trial tweeting on #iitrial.
Cheers,
Renai LeMay
News Editor
ZDNet.com.au
renai.lemay@zdnet.com.au
I do think though that Twitter could really be used for community involvement in cities, but not in courts.
@obrientrial. It provided a well updated stream of information to the public, without having cameras.
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www.anonymous.ua.tc
http://twitter.com/CBS42/statuses/5019566762
http://twitter.com/JohnArchibald/status/5020744884