Back in March, I wrote a column about how Twitter is a closer competitor to Facebook than MySpace is. Twitter and Facebook are more utility than media sites, I argued. But lately, Twitter has begun displaying some troubling similarities to MySpace—and that should be a red flag for the growing company.
What I am talking about, in a word, is hookers. Over a four-day span in mid-August my husband got 43 new “followers” whose profile pages depicted naked or scantily clad women.
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