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What a Twit

Twitter’s Link service automatically shortens links when you put them into Twitter, and even identifies Larry the Twitter Bird c/co www.stargroup1.comthe untrustworthy ones for the recipients.  An example of this comes courtesy of Harrell ‘Jersey Shore’ Kirstein, who sent me a direct message with a link that produced such an alert.

Twitter’s link service at http://t.co is used to better protect users from malicious sites that engage in spreading malware, phishing attacks, and other harmful activity.

A link converted by Twitter’s link service is checked against a list of potentially dangerous sites. When there’s a match, users can be warned before they continue:

Why would the spokes-model for the New Hampshire Democrat Party be sending me a Direct Message on Twitter, linked to a dangerous web site, at 2:45 AM on a Sunday morning? 

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Too much cheap wine?  Coming off a harsh, late night, left-wing guilt trip?  How about Community service?  He claims he saw a blog about me that had bad things to say and wanted to know if I had seen it? Just one?  Why this one?

I wonder if "2:45AM Harrell" knows that Twitter filters links so that I can click with some sense of security even when they come from someone who works for the State Democrat party? (Never trust the party that keeps trying to regulate the "free" out of free speech.)

And what is Harrell’s excuse for trying to send a conservative blogger to a suspicious or dangerous web site that might infect his laptop with the PC equivalent of Obama-Care or Dodd-Frank; grinding productivity to a halt!?

Maybe he just wanted to give me something else to blog about?  Well…mission accomplished.

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