Unrelated: Apparently Twitter was originally twttr, and in 2006, techcrunch had this to say about the service: There is also a privacy issue with Twttr. Ev

Unrelated: Apparently Twitter was originally twttr, and in 2006, techcrunch had this to say about the service: There is also a privacy issue with Twttr. Every user has a public page that shows all of their messages. Messages from that person’s extended network are also public. I imagine most users are not going to want to have all of their Twttr messages published on a public website.