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In the last couple of hours, I’ve gotten several notification emails from Twitter that person X was now following me.  As far as I can tell, it has to be some sort of spam or bot.  All of the usernames follow the basic formula <girl’s name><number>, and the accounts are usually deleted shortly after I get the email.  When I manage to catch an account before it’s deleted, it always has a link to the same URL, which I’m not going to mention and potentially up this person’s pagerank.

I hope Twitter can take care of this, because it’s getting annoying.

So, I finally decided to check out what this Twitter thing was all about.  Basically, it’s a way of posting what you’re up to, and it’s easily exported to other places online, such as Facebook or blogs (see my Twitter Status to the right).  It’s even possible to update it via text message if you’re out and about.