{"id":1626,"date":"2008-10-28T10:29:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T14:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2008-10-28T10:29:42","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T14:29:42","slug":"i-warned-you-about-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/10\/28\/i-warned-you-about-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"I Warned You About Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

All that time you’re spending on Twitter?\u00c2\u00a0 You’re harming US national defense, as some portion of the military is apparently spend its time analyzing your tweets instead of doing something useful.\u00c2\u00a0 From a recent report issued by the 304th Military Intelligence Battalion (of the U.S. Army):<\/p>\n

Twitter has also become a social activism tool for socialists, human rights groups, communists, vegetarians, anarchists, religious communities, atheists, political enthusiasts, hacktivists<\/em> and others to communicate with each other and to send messages to broader audiences[.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seriously.\u00c2\u00a0 Vegetarians?\u00c2\u00a0 Some military unit spent time<\/em> creating this report<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Boggling.\u00c2\u00a0 Next up: terrorists AND those weird macrobiotic diet people use the telephone system!\u00c2\u00a0 Oh noes!11!!!<\/p>\n

(BTW – the attraction of Twitter remains a mystery to me, despite the fact that I’m a member of a number of the noted groups.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All that time you’re spending on Twitter?\u00c2\u00a0 You’re harming US national defense, as some portion of the military is apparently spend its time analyzing your tweets instead of doing something useful.\u00c2\u00a0 From a recent report issued by the 304th Military Intelligence Battalion (of the U.S. Army): Twitter has also become a social activism tool for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society","category-tech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t