@ Evil Auditor
...is Twitter not derived from twit?
I had always felt that if you trace back the origins..
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YMMV but there are some really interesting people out there and some of them tweet things very worth reading but there is also a stupendous amount of dross on Twitter. The trick is to only look at the interesting stuff. That's why I am not much troubled by advertising. I have this special device that stops me seeing adverts - it's called a brain...