I tweet occasionally for the benefit of a few people who need to know whether I'm incommunicado. Unlike Stephen Fry, I save my wit and wisdom for less transient and less restrictive media.
-- David Harley BA CISSP FBCS CITP Small Blue-Green World > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Ferguson > Sent: 15 March 2009 08:07 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [funsec] Tweet This: I Don't Care > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I can't help but tell you -- I hate Twitter. > > It's just... useless. For me. > > I already have a blog, which allows me to publish content in > more than 140 characters. > > What is the allure? Please, tell me. > > If you want to "follow" me, good luck. Or rather, try my RSS feed. > > Are people so absorbed in themselves that they really want to > let everyone in the world know what they are doing at any > given moment? Isn't that disturbing, in and of itself? > > If you already have a blog, and Twitter, please don't tell me > [1] in your blog's RSS feed what you're Twittering about. It > smacks of self-absorption and self-promotion. > > Yikes. Scary. > > Please. Stop it. > > I'm not "following you" anyway. > > - - ferg > > [1] > http://www.thebillblog.com/billblog/index.php/2009/03/15/what- > ive-tweeted-o > n-2009-03-15/ > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) > > wj8DBQFJvLb9q1pz9mNUZTMRArRZAKCqC6xSu685T22GYqy2mqMV/f2IHwCeL8Ks > Y/1a0UVyB6we8F5xBs0aW/A= > =NXWZ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > -- > "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson > Engineering Architecture for the Internet > fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: > http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of > virus signature database 3937 (20090314) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 3937 (20090314) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
