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Micro blogging sites 02 March 2009
How safe are they?

The micro blogging site Twitter is hugely popular with web users from Stephen Fry to Jonathan Ross and it seems just about everybody else as a way of telling other people what you're doing at a given moment in time. But according to some internet safety charities it could pose a risk to child safety because it isn't moderated like other social networking sites like Facebook and Bebo. To discuss the growing popularity of Twitter and some of the industry's concerns, the editor of the internet magazine New Media Age Justin Pearse joins Jane in the studio.
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