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Twitterer Takes on Twitter Harassment Policy

Betsy Schiffman

Ariel Waldman says she’s been harassed over Twitter for close to a year and the company has refused to do anything about it, despite the fact that it violates their own terms of service.
Waldman, a community manager at Pownce, says a longtime stalker launched a campaign against her over Twitter in June 2007. When she contacted the company about the tweets, somebody said they took them down from the public time line. As the tweets continued to stream in, Waldman says she periodically reported them to Twitter.

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