If you’re surprised, you’re not paying attention. From the Times:
The government is increasingly monitoring Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites for tax delinquents, copyright infringers and political protesters. A public interest group has filed a lawsuit to learn more about this monitoring, in the hope of starting a [...]

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xkcd : Experiment Sandwars Alien Bug Invasion Obama Facebook – thanks KerryLinks for my geeky homies…
statsy – fine those wasted bytes “Twitter” Declared the Most Popular Word of 2009 [...]All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).
Perhaps you’ve heard of this Twitter thing that Oprah made popular a few months ago (OMG, can you believe she’s ending her show?!?)? Well, a few weeks back I created a Twitter list that made it easy to read what Philadelphia comedians are up to, but what if you don’t [...]
Or: Britney Spears’ Lack Of Underwear Is Matt Mullenweg’s Go-To Example For Information He Doesn’t Care About
Based upon my Twitter stream from this past weekend, one could easily enough have guessed that I spent Saturday and Sunday up in New York City for WordCamp New York City 2009. [...]