Reply #16: Ha ha- and it just gets better! Usage of the Bit.Ly links feeds information directly back into...

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....Twitter itself where the information about what you clicked, where you clicked it from and so on can be index and cross-indexed with information in your Twitter account and friends list and then monetized. And when I say monetized, I mean right down to a geo-spatial analysis of everything about YOU.

  This is so slick it ain't even funny- check out the BetaWorks family of companies. Don't miss lotame.com and (of course) bit.ly, itself.

  Not too shabby for a Lybian-registered domain name being hosted in Denver (by the airport, no less!) as part of a self-indexing social network whose whole goal is to gather every bit of information about you (even if you're not on the terrorist watch list) and then feed it back to advertisers who pay top dollar to own the metrics of your life, interestes, hopes, dreams, medical conditions, sexual peccadilloes, etc. etc.

  BTW, have fun with The Revolution (TM)!

  The Twitter-style participation in this event smacks more of Political Live Action Role-Playing for the benefit of corporations than anything else.

  Psst, has anyone broken it to you yet that all the candidates in the Iran election are given "clearance" to run by Islamic clerics and that the concept (as I've heard around here) that Moussavi is the Iranian Obama is...heh heh, oh, you get the idea!

PB