I don't see a problem with it. If you use twitter, then you clearly don't have a problem living your life in the open and the price of being an attention whore

I don't see a problem with it. If you use twitter, then you clearly don't have a problem living your life in the open and the price of being an attention whore is getting attention. For those of us who don't need to play-by-play our every thought and action in 140 character narration throughout the day to our imagined hoards of clingy worshippers, it won't be a problem. We likely don't use twitter or we don't use the same identity as we do elsewhere. I mean, as much as I'd kind of like to have all of my identities tied together, I don't like the potential problems that may draw. Therefore, I use a different identity at HN than I do at Slashdot which is different than on LinkedIn which is different than on Amazon, which is different than on Steam, which is different than on XBOX Live. Yeah, people like you and I are still open to having any anonymity data-mined out of us through aggregate manipulation -- but at least it's a simple layer of abstraction. In the meantime, if someone can get rich using the wealth of public information that every vapid college girl posting a thousand twitpics a night from her cell at the club puts up online, then more power to them.