It's official ...

... I'm a twit.

Using Twitter to crush a revolution

According to Mark Shea, Iranian security forces are using Twitter to hunt down bloggers via location/timezone searches. He makes the following recommendation for those wishing to support those in Iran who wish to see democracy come to their country:

If you use Twitter, set your location to Tehran & your time zone to GMT +3.30. Iranian security forces are hunting for bloggers using location/timezone searches. The more people at this location, the more of a logjam it creates for forces trying to shut down Iranians' access to the internet. Cut & paste & pass it on.

Hopefully this will work/help.

h/t Mark Shea

Interesting blog entry ...

... over at Science Cheerleader about Twitter.

Her entry is about a student at U. Wisconsin-Madison, Adam Wilson, who twittered using only his mind. Neat.

h/t Science Cheerleader.

Sign me up ...

... for the Coalition of the Sane. I never have, and I never will ... tweet.

From a recent Sprint commercial.233,000 people just Twittered on Twitter. 26% of you viewing this have no idea what that means.

Notice what the twits are twittering. "me!" Heh. Is Sprint characterizing twits? Some people, including yours truly, think so. Not that I don't think blogs aren't self-indulgent, I just think they're more able to share ideas. Then again, I've never been on Twitter ... is the exchange of ideas as applicable to that platform? At a limit of 140 characters (IIRC) I can't believe it is.

Oh, and then there is this ... Twitter can harm a developing childs "moral compass".

"If things are happening too fast, you may not ever fully experience emotions about other people's psychological states and that would have implications for your morality," said researcher Mary Helen Immordino-Yang.

We're already in a state of constant information overload, Twitter (and other social networking sites) add another layer of noise to our daily lives. Oh, and for the record, I don't Facebook or MySpace either.

Twits tweet on twitter ...

... as for the rest of us, who needs the headache?