Hi Julian,

I was very interested in this topic as well when I heard about it. The reasonable expectation to privacy regarding twitter is a rough sell in my opinion. I think the fact that they are knowingly searchable for 2 weeks eviscerates much of the idea that there is a reasonable expectation to privacy. With that being said, I still don't agree with the methods these social networking sites deal with initial privacy settings. The very fact that you have to opt-in to sufficient settings to acquire privacy offends the entire notion of privacy to begin with. Google got a lot of flack for their implementation of Google Buzz, but like you said, Facebook operates in a very similar fashion when releasing "new features," yet most of the privacy concerns are allowed without nearly as much fanfare. I don't get it. Maybe FB is just that ingrained into our society?

In any case, I agree with Professor Moglen that Twitter's death is imminent. I've always thought of Twitter as a rough and dirty way to do what it tries to do. There has to be a better way to do this type of stuff.

-- EdwardBontkowski - 14 May 2010