I thought this was idiotic when Gizmodo mentioned it, but now Slashdot says that this is actually the US Army. This is terrifying.
A chapter titled 'Potential for Terrorist Use of Twitter' notes that Twitter members reported 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.
Do you know what else is both ubiquitous and super dangerous? AIR. It's highly flammable, and it's friggin' everywhere. I pray every day that no one tells the terrorists.
And you know what else is really dangerous? WATER. It makes us drown. Think what could happen if Al Qaeda found that out. And the Earth is over seventy percent water. I hope Osama Bin Laden doesn't read my blog.
You know why education and health care in this country is always short on money? It's because we pay people to conduct studies like this.
I heard this on the radio
I heard this on the radio this morning (but not on NPR!) and was completely disgusted. The entire internet is predicated on sharing information quickly. People have been doing a slightly different version of this kind of thing through IM clients like AIM, Google Chat, MSN, etc for years. Now that there's a service that makes it possible for people to subscribe to other people's twitter's all of a sudden Terrorists are using it? What makes you think any "terrorists" weren't already doing this, only doing it in private?
The USG should be thanking Twitter for luring out the dumb Terrorists to use their application. The USG could just subscribe to the Twitter streams of those they want to watch without them ever knowing.
Exactly. There are only
Exactly. There are only about a billion ways you can misuse the internet and all of the available services. Latching onto something like this and screaming about it is ridiculous.
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