CELEBRITIES and social networking website users have hailed a victory for freedom of speech after a man found guilty of sending a menacing tweet won his challenge against conviction.
Paul Chambers, 28, was fined £385 and ordered to pay £600 costs at Doncaster Magistrates' Court in May 2010 after being convicted of sending "a message of a menacing character".
He said he tweeted to his 600 followers in a moment of frustration after Robin Hood Airport in South Yorkshire was closed by snow in January 2010, and never thought anyone would take his "silly joke" seriously.
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