Re: Twitter suspends security researcher's account as a threat

[security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>]

: On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:05:09AM -0400, The Security Community wrote:
: > What security professional in their right mind would use Twitter?
: 
:       Twitter is for twits. I fail to see the attraction of what amounts
:       to stream of conciousness net.diarrhoea. I guess my random thoughts

I used to think that. I am a convert.

Twitter, as a service, as used by a majority of users, is ass. Waste of 
time, no reason to consider it. The actual Twitter web site is a joke; 
deployed horribly, fragile and devoid of any real features. If you want 
any power, flexibility or features, you have to use dozens of third-party 
sites (somewhat transparent via their API use) or utilities.

However, there is a smaller subset of people that use it for better 
reason. If you use a third-party client and real-time search filters, it 
is as valuable a source of information as many others you currently use. 
For example, i've caught reports of incidents that were included in 
DatalossDB.org, that I did not see through my other sources of 
information. I've caught wind of a few vulnerabilities that were not 
disclosed through 'normal' means (e.g., bugtraq/f-d), and added to 
OSVDB.org. There are some services / vendors / providers that use it to 
give updates to customers when their own connectivity is down.

On top of all that, it has been a great tool for giving security companies 
grief in real-time, reminding them that not everyone drinks their 
watered-down koolaid.
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