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Cybersquatters Hit Social Networks

Submitted by LiveScience Staff

posted: 18 June 2009 11:57 am ET

St. Louis Cardinals Manager Tony LaRussa sued Twitter because someone else was tweeting with his identity. It'd become a "problem" on all social network sites and Round 2 of the Internet Land Grab gets nastier and nastier. With opportunities dwindling for old-fashioned dot-com cybersquatting, companies, celebs and regular Joes are finding their names taken faster than they can type, well, their names.

Read full story at The New York Times

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