Facebook patents the news feed
The US patent cites the award is for: "dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network".
The development means Facebook could sue Twitter – which is essentially one giant news feed – for copyright infringement.
In fact, analysts point out that the patent is so wide ranging that pretty much all the basic tenets of social media could technically be in breach of copyright.
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The patent was lodged in 2006 before Twitter and many other social networking sites existed.
Needless to say, the award hasn’t gone down in the social media world:
"Can I start screaming loudly about patent reform now?" tweeted Matt Galligan, who founded a streaming-feeds start-up called Socialthing and eventually sold it to AOL which rebranded it AIM Lifestream.
This news could be shaking up social media in a big way – we’ll keep you up-to-date with all the latest as it happens.
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