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    UK Supreme Court to take up tweeting

    By CASSANDRA VINOGRAD | Associated Press – Sun, Feb 5, 2012

    LONDON (AP) — The halls of Britain's Supreme Court are becoming a bit more high-tech, as the highest court in the land joins Twitter.

    The Supreme Court is launching http://twitter.com/UKSupremeCourt on the microblogging site Monday to issue realtime news on its latest judgments, court spokesman Ben Wilson said.

    Wilson called the move an extension of the court's commitment to making its proceedings as accessible as possible and engage a new audience who might not be familiar with the court's work.

    "From producing summaries of judgments to streaming proceedings live online, taking to Twitter is another step to opening the doors of the highest court in the land to as many people as possible," Wilson explained.

    He said the court is eager to get the service up and running before justices prepare their judgment in WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's extradition appeal, the most high profile case the court has heard since its opening in 2009.

    "Twitter provides a channel to rapidly publish the outcome of this case, and others, to a large number of interested parties in a timely and efficient manner," Wilson said.

    Assange is challenging whether Sweden's public prosecutor was qualified to issue a European Arrest warrant for his extradition — the latest chapter in his months-long fight against allegations of molestation and rape lodged by two women he met during a trip to Sweden in 2010.

    A ruling in Assange's hearing, which took place last week, is not expected from Supreme Court justices for another few weeks.

    While Britain's Supreme Court has allowed tweeting from its courtrooms on most occasions since February 2011, Wilson said Monday marks the first time the court itself will post to the microblogging site.

    To kick off the new service, the Supreme Court plans to tweet live updates from the swearing-in ceremony of new justice Robert Reed on Monday .

    The account will be managed by the Court's communications team.

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    Online:

    http://twitter.com/UKSupremeCourt

     

    7 comments

    • greene_teeth
      greene_teeth  •  Chattanooga, Tennessee  •  3 mths ago
      Or it was one of those tri trades that went drastically wrong when everybody sobered up and realized there were witnesses who were close-minded to group sex.
    • greene_teeth
      greene_teeth  •  Chattanooga, Tennessee  •  3 mths ago
      It may be Julian and Tiger met on the golf course to plot against the women in their lives who have the audacity to divorce them and take their children and money somewhere else to live.
    • greene_teeth
      greene_teeth  •  Chattanooga, Tennessee  •  3 mths ago
      Or it is Julian Assange trying to not let the Supreme Court see what he is now doing by being vindictive against the iPad.
    • greene_teeth
      greene_teeth  •  Chattanooga, Tennessee  •  3 mths ago
      I can still be negative about the camera on iPad and I really do not think I have done this over 2000 times so someone else is also having fun.
    • John 316
      John 316  •  Yakima, Washington  •  3 mths ago
      This is useless. Considering what you see on twitter are we going to know every time one of the justices farts?
    • Ardent Defender
      Ardent Defender  •  Los Angeles, California  •  3 mths ago
      Who gives a #$%$ Except liberals that want their decisions to be our decisions....
    • Sweet
      Sweet  •  3 mths ago
      I think it helps a lot. To ME that is............
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