I have to admit this is the first time I’ve heard of something like this. According to an article in the NY Daily News, apparently a fight broke out on Twitter between a couple guys that spiraled out of control.
It ended with one of them dead.
From NY Daily News
It started as a simple Twitter beef, 140-character spurts of anger by two young men who grew up together.
But the tough talk exploded out of cyberspace and onto the streets of Harlem, where a college student was gunned down feet from Gov. Paterson’s home.
Now tweets sent by victim Kwame Dancy, 22, and accused killer Jameg Blake, 22, could become key evidence in a murder trial, the Daily News has learned.
My curiousity would be in whether or not the Twitter updates would hold any legal ground in court.
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I would think that this would be just as relevant as emails. Unless the alleged can prove that he didn’t have control of his account.
My question would also be: how is the evidence going to be collected from Twitter? API calls or do they have to do a seizure of some of the equipment.