Twitter's veracity chewed up by Britney's four-foot vagina

@AC ... What's wrong with "vagina"?

"Could do without the last word in the title"

Seriously, what's wrong with the word vagina?

"C'mon show *some* class"

You expect "class" in an article that mentions Britney Spears, Fox News, and social networking?

As you say ... C'mon ...

Re Proper name for users

Twats, surely?

@Anon

OMFG get the hell outta here with this PC BS.

Re:hmph

Yes but...

"a confession from pop celeb Spears that her vagina was four feet wide 'with razor sharp teeth.'"

has got to be the funniest thing I will read today.

Haha

That is the best title ever. I don't really understand the hostility towards twitter users that inevitably pops up in comment threads after articles that mention it though. This is the internet. Occasionally you're going to come across people doing things you don't like, and as that particular scale goes, twittering is pretty innocous.

To its credit...

"To its credit, and unlike many of its peers, Twitter gives users the option of surfing the vast majority of the site with the use of the secure sockets layer protocol, a measure that makes it harder for scammers to trick their prey."

It also turns you into a terrorist, though, since Jacqui/Phorm can't see what you're doing, unless they've forced you to use that "man-in-the-middle router" that I saw on comp.risks yesterday. (In the future, all internet traffic will be encrypted by default, but we'll be forced to give the keys to the authorities, who will stick them in the Uberbase, which they then make available to a few million stakeholders.)

@ Sarah Bee

"It's almost as if people *enjoy* getting enraged and feeling superior over nothing."

Well of *course* we do. That's why the internet was invented :)

@ AC / follow up to Ground Rush post

We had to find a suitable alternative word in the office after complaints about the C word by some of our office. Roll on a few web searches and we all agreed on "Pompom". Jamaican slang, apparently.

scampaigns?

Come on, own up - you're just trying to make up words ready for 2009's list of the most annoying neologisms.

Cults

Might this affect the cult of celebrity? If nearly everything connected with celebs gets fouled up then perhaps the shine will begin to wear off. I do hope so.

Ha, twitter....

The (in)famous blog 2.0 tool finally found a suitable use. Too bad they froze the accounts. Looks like some celebs will have to go back to the old press release method to keep the world informed of their bowel movements. Unfortunately the non-celeb who had their account compromised cannot do the same. I hope the world can survive without knowing when Joe Bloggs goes potty -in real time.

Appropriate?

"The exception was the hijacked account of President-elect Barack Obama, which directed followers to visit a website that attempted to steal personal information"

Given the way the US wants all our details to travel there, and the supposed spying activities they undertake, this is sort of appropriate. Unless Obama manages to reverse the stampeding elephants.