Fail Whale Jihadists


As if the US Army had nothing better to do, they have apparently done a study of the Twitter, and the potential use thereof by terrorists.

From the report:

A chapter on “Potential for Terrorist Use of Twitter” notes that Twitter members sent out messages, known as “Tweets,” reporting the July Los Angeles earthquake faster than news outlets and activists at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis used it to provide information on police movements.

“Twitter has also become a social activism tool for socialists, human rights groups, communists, vegetarians, anarchists, religious communities, atheists, political enthusiasts, hacktivists and others to communicate with each other and to send messages to broader audiences,” the report said.

Good gravy, a service that’s up as often as it’s down, still manages to stay ahead of the MSM? Who knew? And now, Afghani cave-dwellers with mal intent will use the Twitter to launch the next attack on The Homeland? Terrorists aren’t dumb; they prefer working services.

So, all you socialist-human_rights-communist-vegetarian-anarchist-religious-atheist-political_enthusiast-hactkivist-jihadists, don’t tweet me. Oops, I forgot. I somehow managed to log on to the Twitter during a rare period of uptime, and cancelled my account.

I’ll say nothing about free speech, now that the Feds care. Hell, I might even resurrect my old Twitter account. My way of telling them “Nuts!”

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Ain’t Missin’ the Tweetin’

OK, I’m lame. I’m not on the Twitter any more, and don’t plan on returning. Still, I’ll admit to checking in on some of my old Twitter buds from time to time. And I find this, which I’ll quote here before the Twitter goes in the dumper again:

I’ll say it: I now feel about Twitter like I do about cell phone companies. What they provide is useful in my life but I really hate them.

Maybe Twitter should lose the final vowel from its name, to be more chique. Or come up with cooler cutesy pictures when the service is in the crapper. Or maybe they should concentrate on availability. Hmmm … what a choice to make.

I tweeted, I enjoyed, I’m gone.

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Tweeted my Last

Just when the Twitter/blog balance was beginning to, well, balance, the Twitter looks to be morphing into a spam-filled cesspit. I’ll miss the handful of cool folks I follow, and who follow me back.

However, when you get followed by folk who follow 50,000 others, and who themselves have but 6 followers, something smells.

I’m going to fall on the Twitter hari kari knife for the last time, as soon as I hit “publish” on this post. To all the good folk with whom I shared a 140 character or less tip of the hat, a fond adieu.

To the rest of the lame ass spammers, *plonk*.

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Twitter in Tank

My natural sensitivity renders it unthinkable that I use the acronym form of this post’s title. I check the Twitter a few times a day, much like e-mail. Just now, I got the overly cute “Something is Technically Wrong” twitter advisory.

WP asides rule!
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Another Tool

While using the Twitter, I commented that it was a live-blogging tool par excellence. I think the “Asides” category that I discovered I had all along, could serve the same purpose. In many respects, Asides serve it better.

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