Malaysia Men Sentenced 100 Tweet Apology

Be careful, must not spit tweet on Twitter. It could be considered defamation. As happened in this man from Malaysia, because defamation is considered a medium, he diperkarakan and then punished to make 100 apology via Twitter.

The punishments are somewhat unique to the defendant. But the court saw what the actors - Fahmi Fadzil - it also raised via the micro-blogging sites.

In problematic tweet it, Fahmi wrote that his friend who was pregnant was not treated well by the magazine company where he worked. Unfortunately, local media Malaysia is offended by the chirp.

As a result, they also bring this matter to court with charges of defamation. In short, Fahmi eventually convicted and sentenced to 100 tweets post an apology in a span of three days.

"1 / 100 I have done a libel against the Blu Inc Media & Female Magazine. tweets related to my previous company policy they were not true. I take back those words and with this state an apology,"the apology tweet posted Fahmy, quoted from Cellular News, on Monday (06/05/2011).

Even so, this problem turns out to have an impact 'positive'. That surge in followers Fahmi be more than 1,000 followers on Twitter after this issue was revealed to the public.