Alex Massie Alex Massie

CTB Sues* Twitter

Well, this is going to be interesting. But I don’t see how it can end well:

Twitter Inc. and some of its users were sued by an entity known as “CTB” in London, according to a court filing.

While the document gave no details, CTB are the initials used by the court in a separate lawsuit to refer to an athlete who won an anonymity order banning the media from publishing stories about his alleged affair with a reality-television star.

The Twitter suit was filed May 18 at the High Court in London according to court records, and named as defendants the San Francisco-based company and “persons unknown responsible for the publication of information on the Twitter accounts” listed in confidential court documents.

What next? And how on earth is a successful suit supposed to be enforced? You might as well try and prevent people from talking to one another in the pub.

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