No trial for Twitter 'panic' man

halight

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8143806.stm

andykn

Sometimes a quote to introduce the article is useful, especailly for those with limited web access:

An appeals court in Guatemala City has ruled there is not enough evidence to try a man accused of using micro-blog Twitter to cause a financial panic.

Jean Anleu was charged in May after sending a 96-character "tweet" urging people to pull their money from Guatemala's rural development bank.

halight

andykn wrote: »

Sometimes a quote to introduce the article is useful, especailly for those with limited web access:

I would be iv only got limited skills myself:D
I dont know how to do a qote in a box
All my computer and internet skill are self tourt.
Doing those quotes is somthing that iv always wonted to know how today but have always been afraid to ask.
So any help any one?

PasturesNew

An appeals court in Guatemala City has ruled there is not enough evidence to try a man accused of using micro-blog Twitter to cause a financial panic.
... charged in May after sending a 96-character "tweet" urging people to pull their money from Guatemala's rural development bank.

... appeals court has ordered the case judge to rule "the case lacks merit", ...

...

Using the alias "jeanfer", he had urged depositors to pull their money from the bank and had said that "first concrete action should be, take cash out of Banrural and bankrupt the bank of the corrupt".

... the tweet illegally undermined public trust in Guatemala's banking system.

Mr Anleu now hopes to recover $6,200 in bail money, half of which was donated by sympathetic tweeters. He also spent another $7,000 on legal fees.

There you go then.

Mozette

halight wrote: »

I would be iv only got limited skills myself:D
I dont know how to do a qote in a box
All my computer and internet skill are self tourt.
Doing those quotes is somthing that iv always wonted to know how today but have always been afraid to ask.
So any help any one?

click the button marked 'quote' on the bottom right of the post you want to quote from

mewbie_2

Just to be on the safe side I am not going to do my Tweet "we've all got swine flu and our legs have fallen off".

Zelie

Mozette wrote: »

click the button marked 'quote' on the bottom right of the post you want to quote from

That's how you do it from the same forum. To quote from another source, highlight and copy (ctrl+c) the text you want to quote. Then paste it (ctrl+p) in the reply window on the forum. Before the start of the text write the word 'quote' in square brackets. At the end of the text write the same but put a '/' before the word 'quote'.

So it would look something like this:

(quote) interesting text here (/quote)

but bear in mind that the brackets would be the [square ones]

:T

mdhelp

there is a 'wrap QUOTE tags around selected text' button bottom row, third from the right above the text editor when you create a new message or reply.

and just discovered that the text in quotes of course does not count as your text so you have to type something to hit the minimum characters required.

mewbie_2

Me

you can embed quotes

within quotes

although

people will think you are an @sshole

Which is a downside.

halight

(Quote)That's how you do it from the same forum. To quote from another source, highlight and copy (ctrl+c) the text you want to quote. Then paste it (ctrl+p) in the reply window on the forum. Before the start of the text write the word 'quote' in square brackets. At the end of the text write the same but put a '/' before the word 'quote'. (/Quote)

halight

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Just tryed to do it. And its not working ofr me.
Ill have a go tomorrow.