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# A Twitterstorm in a Courthouse Over Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg
- URL: https://broadbandbreakfast.com/a-twitterstorm-in-a-courthouse-over-facebook-founder-mark-zuckerberg/
- Published: 2017-01-24T21:56:14.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-11T06:29:45.000Z
- Description: Broadband Breakfast Insight: Great and fascinating article urging a more widespread tolerance of electronics in the courtroom, such as Tweeting. A Trial and a Twitterstorm: On Live-Tweeting From a Federal Courthouse As I walked into a federal court in Dallas last Tuesday, waiting to hear the Faceboo
- Author: Broadband Breakfast
- Tags: New York Times, Broadband's Impact, broadband news, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Mike Isaac, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-02-01 10:23, #added-preview-divider

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****Broadband Breakfast Insight: Great and fascinating article urging a more widespread tolerance of electronics in the courtroom, such as Tweeting.**

> A Trial and a Twitterstorm: On Live-Tweeting From a Federal Courthouse

As I walked into a federal court in Dallas last Tuesday, waiting to hear the Facebook founder’s testimony, my pockets were filled with the items typical of a paranoid tech reporter on deadline: a laptop, my iPhone, spare batteries, charging cables, backup charging cables, a digital voice recorder, seven different ink pens and at least four of my favorite notebooks. I would broadcast his words to the world as quickly as I could, or watch my laptop die trying.

Here is what I was not prepared for: A stern, six-foot tall retired United States Marshal, built like a brick house and with little time for pleasantries, telling me he’d kick me out of the courthouse if I sent one more tweet about the trial.

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Source: *[A Trial and a Twitterstorm: On Live-Tweeting From a Federal Courthouse – The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/insider/a-trial-and-a-twitterstorm-on-live-tweeting-from-a-federal-courthouse.html?ref=broadbandbreakfast.com)*