As a separate issue, I would like to talk about privacy on twitter. If this is the wrong place for this, let me know.
Twitter asks for my email address when I signed up. I put some pretty stupid junk in my twitter account, and I thought I was anonymous. Somehow, many people I associate with are finding me, putting me in a bit of a bind.
I learned later on, by importing my personal address book into gmail, I can login to gmail via twitter, and find all sorts of people.
This is not explained anywhere that I can tell, that my email address can be used as a vector to locate me within twitter. With this, as long as I use my real email address, I have no anonymity on twitter.
What are you comments on this? I know I can change my email address, and I will shortly. Though I overlooked this, and it took me some time to figure out how people were finding me so easily.
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