Having received my shiny new iPhone 3G, one of the first things I did was to add a number of Twitter apps from the App Store — and my favorite is Twinkle, a Twitter interface that allows you to see other Twinkle Tweets from within a specified range (1 mile to Everywhere)
It was nice to see people in my area, a couple of whom I personally knew, but my experimenting has led to some horrifying experiences, which are inspiration for a new series I call the Horror of Twinkle.
Twinkle users are a diverse group, with Twinklers from around the world expressing themselves by tweeting with locality. Unfortunately, that also means that other Twinkle users can solicit others for sex, as this man did (with apparently poor results)
i can show you something dif
For some reason, everything I see on the internet further perpetuates this idea that everyone from California is a creepy/pedophile/desperate offender with nothing better to do than hook up with people they’ve only seen through what is maybe a 50×50 pixel avatar. He wasn’t the only one harassing the poor girl, but he was the biggest creep of them all.
Shame shame.
The next series of images is a little creepy; someone with nothing better to do than sit on their ass and twinkle provides a very interesting chat history and what may be a questionable solicitation — although he might have been a victim himself of someone that is also creepy.
whats every1 up 2
Mines Bigger
Even if it’s out of context, it’s still CREEPY. Let’s only hope that people aren’t using twitpic for unsavory things (or savory depending on your own level of creepiness) like, well, that.
This guy also spends his time looking at pictures of people’s food.
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Who spends three hours talking to random strangers on Twinkle? What’s scary is that if this happened to you it would more than likely be from someone who is within 1 to 25 miles of you. Is Twinkle the next pedophile tool?
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