I took the twitter feed off of this page. There were two reasons. First, last night it was showing some one else's feed. I don't know who it was, but it sure as hell wasn't mine. I checked the set up and it still had my user and the test still showed my tweets, but when I reloaded the page it wasn't showing anything of mine.
The other reason is related to twitter lists, and the blog security purge from earlier this year. I was added to a list made up entirely of people who have my last name. I haven't a clue who the person who set it up is except that we share a last name and he's from Illinois. Other than that.. nuttin.
The problem is that I am trying to keep references to last names off of this page and if I kept the twitter feed you could click on that and figure out my last name. So off it goes.
The other problem had to do with some of the other twitter users on the list. Spam, in other words. What a bummer. I only gave the list a cursory glance, but noticed many a familiar tweet. The teeth whitening spam was there (your dentist doesn't want you to know about this!). The webcam porn posts were there (I'm throwing a party and you're invited >insert porn link here<). It made me feel sort of bad for those of us on the list who are actual people. It made me sad. I took a very quick look at opting out of the list but I don't think you can.
I could remove my last name from my account. As it is it doesn't display (at least I don't think it does). I don't want to do that though, because if there is a chance that some one I might know might want to find me on twitter I'd like to give them a chance. I'm on the fence about that one. I'll probably just take my last name off the account.
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