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August 19, 2009Juliet U. KingAssociate General CounselTexas Department of TransportationDewitt C. Greer State Highway Building125 E. 11
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StreetAustin, TX 78701-2483RE: Alleged Violations of Texas Penal CodeDear Juliet:I am in receipt of your letter dated August 17, 2009 claiming violations of the TexasPenal Code regarding certain Twitter accounts. (In law school, did you ever imagineyou’d be dealing with legal issues vis a vis something with as silly a name as“Tweeting?”)Let me first address the account at http://twitter.com/DFW. My employer and I have
nothing to do with that account. I only became aware of its existence via your letter.As to the accounts at:http://twitter.com/TxDOTDallashttp://twitter.com/TxDOTFortWorthThese are in no way a forgery or an impersonation of a public servant. We have beenquite clear that they are a service of
Pegasus News
, intended to try to make up for theonly two major Texas markets failing to maintain a DOT Twitter feed. Every post links toa transportation-related article on
Pegasus News
. Further, we published notice that theseaccounts were created by us and not by the DOT on our news InterWebs site, read bymore 400,000 Texans monthly. I presume you noticed that, as you were able to connectthese accounts to us.Although it was already quite clear that these Twitter accounts were not from the DOT,
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