Cheating celebrities hiding behind injunctions named on Twitter

Cheating celebrities hiding behind injunctions were left reeling last night after their secrets were exposed by social networkers.

An internet campaign led by Twitter users is defying court gags to identify the stars, including the married footballer who has had an affair with Big ­Brother’s Imogen Thomas.

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Twitter had its highest ever day of Internet visits yesterday after the super #injunction scandal http://hitw.se/jikb3c

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A single tweeter with more than 42,000 followers claims to “out” famous figures using expensive super-injunctions to keep their disgraceful behaviour secret.

Facebook users have also set up a group dedicated to the subject.

Member Dyl Roberts said: “These people are in the public eye and make millions of pounds on the back of their stardom.

“It’s wrong they should be allowed to hide behind the law and it’s awesome that they are now being exposed. The whistleblowers deserve a medal.”

But there were fears some of the information being sent out online is false or riddled with errors.

Several celebs have already been wrongly named as having brought out injunctions.

Sports presenter Gabby Logan is at the centre of a false rumour she had a fling with soccer pundit Alan Shearer. The mum-of-two issued a fresh denial, tweeting: “I am not and never have.”

Jemima Khan has also been wrongly linked to an affair with Jeremy Clarkson. The socialite revealed yesterday she even had a message of support from the Top Gear star’s wife Frances.

She also got a text from Clarkson and wrote of the false rumours: “I hope the people who made this story up realise that my son will be bullied at school because of it. Plus I’m getting vile hate tweets.” The internet campaign comes as a group of MPs were preparing to launch a bid to change injunction laws. One, Lib Dem John Hemming, said: “There is a lot to learn from the USA where freedom of speech is enshrined in their constitution.

“Where the courts are trying to keep state secrets and Twitter is on the other end, Twitter will win.

“The problem with the current situation is that innocent people will suffer because media outlets which try to get things right are stopped from reporting.”

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This news has been the biggest even in twitter UK history, driving more traffic than recent anti-cut protests and the royal wedding.

You can track tweeting from the Old Bailey, where many super injunctions are issued. Or use our Facebook App





Update

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has waded into the debate over super-injunctions, saying current privacy laws are a "human rights violation".

The online encyclopaedia has fallen foul of UK privacy law in recent weeks, with details about those using super-injunctions appearing on the site.

Mr Wales told the BBC that such information would be removed because it did not come from a reliable sourc

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Track twitter on Royal Wedding route

UPDATE: The end of the Royal Wedding saw what might be the highest concentration of tweeting in one place yet.



Starting from near the Abbey where the wedding will take place. The normal twitter density here is always high with normal twitter density of 95-97. Using our high density setting we will usually get a score of about 80 for this spot.

UPDATE: Morning of the wedding and we are seeing a high density reading of 97 out of 100. Normally high for this area in 80. The high density reading is intended for very dense areas of twitter usage, and a score above 90 indicates some of the highest tweeting for a given location we have ever seen.



After the wedding the couple will move down Whitehall. This is always a very popular place for tweeting because so many tourists and working English go here. We see a high density of 85 but don't be surprised if during the wedding the high density tweeter score reaches 95 at this part. To date the highest we have seen the high density twitter reading go was 100, at the spot where Jobs released the iPad2



This will probably be the most crowded spot as crowds gather to see the couple wave from the Palace. There is a huge set of public spaces where 10,000s of people will be able to gather.

As we have said the highest tweeting event we have seen has been the iPad 2 release site. So far in London the record has been the anti-cut rallies earlier this year. But we anticipate that with people tweeting photos of the couple and sending messages this could be the largest twitter event of all times.

So we are anticipating seeing 100 scores with the High Density meter as the couple wave to the crowds. But, it weather is poor and if the bad economy has people down we could repressed numbers.

Here is an interesting point to keep in mind about twitter analysis. The route of the parade Friday sees a normal score of 95 low density reading and 80 high density reading on a normal Friday. If scores are not higher than this, or even lower, it may indicate that younger more tech savvy "digital natives" have little or no interest in the traditional royal family.

Well the verdict is in on this, and clearly there is a deep and even global effection for the British Royal family.

UPDATE: The evening before the wedding we are seeing unprecedented high tweeting from near the site of the ceremony as thousands spend the night waiting for a view.

UPDATE: Morning of the wedding and we are seeing very high tweeting levels concentrated around the site of the wedding.

An observation we are making, though we are seeing a lot of tweeting from the site of the wedding not all tweeting is created the same. We are seeing what we call shallow tweeting. Most tweeting is just statements by people for a limited or empty audience, they are chatter that produces no shared community.

In Tahrir Square or Lulu Square we saw lower levels of tweeting, but we saw more tweeting by key individuals, more retweeting, and more discussion. In those events of the Arab Uprising we saw a community using twitter to organize and communicate. In the Royal Wedding Twitter is little more than a cheer. People are not retweeting other tweets. People who tweet about the Royal Wedding are not likely to form any kind of last groups or changing their following patterns. And we are seeing a profound lack of interest by the people tweeting about the Royal Wedding from the people doing the tweeting. In protests we see man people who post tweets become very interested in the volumes of tweets, in forming a conscious about the tweeting.

iPhone 4: Vodafone To Offer Pay As You Go

With the iPhone 4 still being in great demand and retailers having to replenish their stock to keep up with the ever increasing user numbers, network “Vodafone” have announced that they will be offering the iPhone on their pay as you go scheme.
When Lawrence Latif reported on this at the Inquirer, users will initially have to pay approximately £480 for a 16GB iPhone

, and at least £570 for the 32GB version. Vodafone have put this into context since announcing that the company will give users the benefit of 12 months “free” data. On comparison to contract customers, who are asked to initially pay £220 before signing up to a 24 month contract at £25 per month just for the 16GB version, this might not seem so bad!