Unrelated: Apparently Twitter was originally twttr, and in 2006, techcrunch had this to say about the service:<p><pre><code> There is also a privacy issue with Twttr. Every user has
a public page that shows all of their messages. Messages
from that person’s extended network are also public. I
imagine most users are not going to want to have all of
their Twttr messages published on a public website.</code></pre>