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You might think that Twitter is a great way to spread important information quickly, including perhaps emergency notifications. Law.com reports today on a lawsuit from a Texas-based emergency broadcast technology company alleging that by designing its system in a way that allows Twitter to be used for emergency broadcasts, Twitter has violated the litigant's patent.

Sorry RedCross, sorry Center for Disease Control, sorry protesters in Iran - by alerting people to life and death situations over Twitter, you're party to piracy of intellectual property. You ought to be ashamed, and sign up for the services of TechRadium Inc. right away!