With nothing terribly interesting or important going on in the world of criminal sentencing, it seemed as good a time as any to engage in some blatant self-promotion. For much of the past year I've been experimenting with Twitter. Twitter is a free service that allows users to send and receive short messages that Twitter nerds call tweets. Tweets, which can be no longer than 140 characters, get posted on the author's profile page and delivered to everyone who "follows" the author. Users can view tweets on the web, or, if they so choose, via their mobile phone as text messages. (A short video available here explains all of this better than I can.) People use Twitter for lots of different purposes: keeping up with friends, following news headlines, and internet marketing to name a few. I'm using it to broadcast information about my work here at the School-I'm @jamie_markham if you care to take a look. I probably average about two tweets per day. One is usually a link to the daily post on this blog, and one might be a link to a sentencing-related news article. I also post on all sentencing- and corrections-related opinions from our appellate courts, the Fourth Circuit, and the Supreme Court. A typical series of posts might look something like this: New post by Shea Denning on possibility of police officers doing blood draws in DWI cases (probably permissible in NC) http://ow.ly/pMZp 9:11 AM Sep 17th NC Court of Appeals decides an important vehicle [...]
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