The Twitter© Revolution is here, and it’s pushing its way through like no other social networking web site has ever done before. Even national news networks like Fox News, CNN and hundreds of reputable radio stations just to name a few are actively discussing, promoting and advertising the use of Twitter in an unprecedented move to get everyone in the nation to sign up for a free Twitter account like it was the best thing in the world since sliced bread. The push is so big, Twitter© doesn’t even need to pay for advertising space as word of mouth advertising from respected celebrities and newscasters (many acting under expressed company directives) is the greatest free advertising of all time.

Shouldn’t our government be concerned and take a closer look at this newest privacy devastating technology to trick users to spy on their own minute by minute activities? Shouldn’t law enforcement be happy with GPS tracking data from cell phones and stored Internet searches for investigational purposes? Not in the least! Not only is Twitter spreading faster than a wildfire, but it also has the mother of all endorsers on its side complete with directives that impose its use upon government employees: the White House. 

One of the many subordinate federal government agencies that advocate the use of Twitter is the GSA (Government Supply Administration), which manages government IT contracts is actually tasked with training federal workers to use Twitter and other Web 2.0 technologies. The overt push is also a government directive that will result in nearly every resident in the USA voluntarily giving up their physical movement’s and most inner thoughts online and in real-time – through deceit. Under the guise of an “Open Government Directive” in President Obama’s Jan. 21 memo, Twitter© is championed as transparency and open government at a time when (ironically) the country’s national security is threatened by over some daily 3000 cyber-attacks chipping away at our infrastructures such as airports, hospitals, communications, defense and power plants - from new superpower wannabe’s.

Twitter© is the first social networking site to be officially rammed down our throats while the general public doesn’t even know to what extent it could be dangerous as no security information is being released. Not only are hard working honest tax-payers enjoying this new “free” upgrade to a real-time technology, but so are the perverts at large who still lurk on Facebook© and MySpace©, a problem we still haven’t solved.

 But hey, Oprah Winfrey and a whole host of other popular and prominent celebrities are doing it, so it can be all that bad now or can it? Big names dropping big names is what its all about to most people these days, so peer pressure will surely run it’s course to finish the job as usual. But while the “in-crowd” continues to push Twitter like never before in history, many computer security experts – like this one – give the following advice in the interim: Remember the tale of the “Pied Piper” and don’t share your most inner thoughts, pictures and privacy with anyone no matter how “cool” and tempting the newest technology may seem. 

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