Lord McAlpine’s lawyers are reaching into cyberspace to bring to book Twitter users who may have libelled him. And no week seems to pass without some tweeter or other having their handle felt by officers of the law. So if you don’t want to be one of them but you do want to communicate in 140 characters, here are my 10 Golden Rules:
1. Twitter IS publishing. Putting it out there for others to read is publishing. So don’t tweet anything you wouldn’t be happy to see on the newsagent’s shelf with a picture of you above it.
2. You think you know the law of libel. You don’t. Nor do any of your friends. I have had grown men telling me on Twitter this