Joined Twitter
26 May, 2009
Sean Wilkerson convinced me to
join Twitter as a way to help increase
the exposure that the Cipherdyne projects have on the Internet, and also to
interact more with peers in the security community. After having used Twitter now
for a couple of weeks, I can see some benefit in its ability to rapidly broadcast
updates (140 characters at a time) and to make it easy to see what others are
working on (subject to what they choose to reveal of course). Further, it seems
plausible that Twitter's flexibility and speed would make it easier to acquire
answers to questions than trying to contact people directly via email. Sean also
had mentioned that after a recent talk he gave at
DojoSec (hopefully video of it will be posted soon) he noticed that people are
using Twitter during security talks as a way to organize the audience around the
topic at hand. This provides a way for the audience to converge on challenging
questions and bring participation to a higher level. Finally, as a measure of its
success, it might be worth noting that Twitter has also been in the news recently
as a mechanism for organizing a
revolution in the former-Soviet republic of Moldova.
