Impersonating Twitter Inflames High Schools

It's a little hard to get from a first read because the names and other identifying features are being withheld due to them being minors, but as I understand it...

After Eastside High beat rival Seattle in a basketball game, somebody opened a bogus Twitter account in a name that closely resembles an Eastside player and sent derogatory, racist tweets to a Seattle player.

The Eastside student has become the target of threats and tensions between the two schools have increased, so the player who was impersonated has asked Twitter through an attorney for the identity of whomever opened the account and Twitter has agreed to release the information in their possession in twenty days.

The gap between the request and disclosure is to give the impersonator ample time to seek a court order barring release.

Housekeeping: Announcing Our Twitter Feed

After doing some experimentation, I've implemented a Twitter feed for this blog and have embedded one of their widgets into the sidebar.

In addition to linking headlines from a short synopsis, I'll also be using it to retweet articles and blog posts from a growing list of Twitter sources, plus I'll also be linking some news items that don't make it to these pages for one reason or another.

Posts to this blog will still be published to RSS and Atom feeds for the foreseeable future, but if you currently subscribe to either of these feeds, you may want to consider switching to the Twitter for the additional content.

As always... thanks for reading.

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