[geeks] Twitter?

[Rick Hamell]

Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 09:49:40AM -0500, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>> I still can't grasp the point of Twitter.  8-)
> 
> Actually the point of twitter is that I can datamine what YOU* have
> put into the public domain to find all about you.
> If you use it often, I'll find out far more personal details than
> hiring a detective.
> 
> * refer to YOU as meaning anyone else, not you personally.

Which is one of the reasons I use it. To manage my online identity. I 
have a fairly uncommon name (and spelling) so Google brings me up pretty 
quickly. Until about a year ago, it still brought up some rather 
unflattering news group posts (from '97) I felt could hurt my employment 
chances.

So now the first several pages of Google hits are posts on one of my 
multitude of blogs. Which hopefully drives traffic to them to at least 
pay for the hosting.

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Rick Hamell
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