Wow the High Court has ordered @Twitter to disclose information to Fastway Couriers aimed at helping it identify who is behind an ‘abusive’ parody account which most recently operated as Fartway Deliveries Ireland #liveline
— Patricia Kelly (@Kelly73Patricia) June 5, 2020
This changes everything.
A mighty wind.
FIGHT!
Twitter ordered to disclose information over parody account (RTÉ)
Meanwhile…
Remarkable similarities between RTE/IT reports of "Fartway"/Twitter proceedings with credit claimed by both RTE, @viviennetraynor and the Irish Times, @MaryCarolanIT
Some of the sentences are word for word.
What are the chances?https://t.co/PxRzXMizfphttps://t.co/qLcwJKc8PP pic.twitter.com/Ynoiv0fqFQ— nwl (@nwl88444048) June 5, 2020
Anyone?
An absolute joke of a company to begin with. They have purposefully made it almost impossible to contact them, incorrect contact numbers and email addresses, and they have zero interest in resolving any customer complaints.
This closely resembles my experience with them. Their North Dublin Depot on Christmas Eve hosted a gathering of disappointed parents looking at a chaotic mountain of undelivered parcels. Parcels listed on their tracker as attempted delivery weeks earlier changed to a status of returned to depot where they vanished until mid January.
This is quite a game changer- if you can prove that a parody account is doing harm to your business or even person, then twitter may be liable. No harm because it is a scummy thing to do in the first place.
There was zero finding of liability made. So, no.
So far- but that is the way it is heading I predict.
Do you not think that that is right and proper?
I suspect the parody account would do a better job of delivering packages than Fastway.
I’ve never had a bad experience with them, which may be down to the driver in my area. He’s an absolute gem.
Yeah, I’ve heard a few of the drivers are decent alright. However if you have a bad one then you’re in for a nightmare. I’ve had to avoid the companies that use them because the chances are my package will be lost or damaged and I would have no comeback.
i keep seeing this reported on but never see examples of what they were tweeting. anybody?
It is possible that they are reproducing a factual description of the background to the case as read in court. It is not necessary to present this a quote because it is not the judge giving an opinion and they are simply reproducing the facts presented.
It is also possible that these articles have been put together based on the same syndicated court reporting that both media outlets paid for and are entitled to reproduce.
Aye, as the two explain in the tweet replies.