It remains one of the only mainstream social media services that allows the use of pseudonyms.
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Discusses the use of pseudonyms by Doris Lessing, Julian Barnes, Joyce Carol Oates and Gore Vidal.
That has very little to do with the question of the sensible use of pseudonyms.
In Germany, data protection officials go to schools and tell kids to sign up under pseudonyms.
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If digital assassins use pseudonyms, only lawsuits can force Internet Service Providers to reveal their digital address.
The two articles in question were published in 2010 under pseudonyms in the magazine that he founded.
Police said Mr Rivera covered his tracks by using a variety of pseudonyms including "neuron", "royal" and "wildicv".
Bookshops refused to stock it, and he was ostracised for most of the 1950s and forced to work under pseudonyms.
Although the case against Facebook Ireland Ltd was dismissed, proceedings continued against a second defendant known only by two pseudonyms.
But, an equally strong argument can be made that for many people, pseudonyms are necessary for protection against the unscrupulous.
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Other Barker pseudonyms include Jonathan Cobbald and Jack Goetz, but critic Mark Lawson thinks there was significance in him choosing Wiley.
They wouldn't tell me their names since they signed confidentiality agreements with the stars they drive, so they gave me pseudonyms.
The move may be alarming to stars who often perform under pseudonyms to shield friends, family and future employers from their careers.
Japanese Web users, even popular bloggers, typically hide behind pseudonyms or nicknames.
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Staff are given Western pseudonyms such as "Britney" and "Brad" instead of their real names that they must use while calling potential customers.
Their cases list 19 alleged officers - although it's not clear whether they are all separate people because of the use of pseudonyms.
Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey were published, under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, within several months of each other in 1847.
Now, I find the use of pseudonyms liberating, because I know that I am judged simply by WHAT I write, and not by WHO is writing it.
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One federal prosecutor has resigned and another been demoted because they posted tart and nasty comments, using pseudonyms, on the local news website nola.com.
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Plus Social Intelligence has proprietary technology for linking people with pseudonyms or online names they might use in place of the offline name known to their employer.
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At the weekend, best-selling crimewriter R J Ellory admitted using pseudonyms to write glowing reviews on the Amazon book website while criticising his rivals with bad reviews.
"The reason we want to allow pseudonyms is there are lots of places in the world where it's the only way you'd be able to speak freely, " he said.
My first blogs were one that was an update of my personal website, and a secret diary, complete with pseudonyms and disguised locations, of my adventures in early-2000s Manhattan.
In Georgia it's a crime for people to communicate anonymously over the Net, which could come as a surprise to 8 million America Online users, most of whom use pseudonyms.
Eileen Potter (all the names used are pseudonyms), an evacuation officer for the London City Council, was charged as soon as the war began with removing children to the countryside.
But another member of Anonymous tells me that no one in Anonymous can say for sure whether the documents are wrong, given that the group knows each other only by pseudonyms.
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Baron d'Holbach published most of his works under pseudonyms, which helped to keep him safe but also condemned him to centuries of philosophical obscurity (except in the officially godless Soviet Union).
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Some prefer pseudonyms such as MadProgrammer, bluefeet or JohnTheRipper.
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In that light, the ban on pseudonyms makes sense.
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The French media outlet OWNI, for instance, has revealed a page of a manual from the French surveillance firm Amesys that includes a screenshot showing more than 40 pseudonyms of tracked figures.
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