Grab a plane ticket right away as common sense prevails in the US state of Maryland, in the story covered by Mashable "Can Employers Ask For Your Facebook Password? Not in Maryland".  Finally privacy takes a step in the right direction. 

"If you’re a resident of Maryland, you no longer have to fear a potential employer asking you to hand over the keys to your Facebook or Twitter profiles before giving you a job.

Hot on the heels of our comment about Google and the need to delete your search data there to help protect your privacy, it is now the turn of Twitter.

The folks at Twitter are monetising their your data. Yes they're selling the back catalogue of all those Tweets.  DataSift will be packaging up the last two years of Tweets.

If Twitter's motto is to simply 'join the conversation', a form of Babel's charter, then the uninvited now have the license to announce themselves crudely, ambush the unsuspecting, talk at you, over you or down at you. Unleash torrents of abuse, bad grammar, feeble arguments, poor spelling, etc, whilst others struggle not to sink into the mire.

Joey Barton, the outspoken captain of Queen's Park Rangers has reacted to claims that a recent spate of tweets might have predjudiced a forthcoming race case involving Chelsea's John Terry and QPR defender, Anton Ferdinand. He tweeted: "I will gladly go to jail for a month, in the name of free speech. I have no problem with what I said. Make me a martyr..."