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My Twitter username is ffg, because I signed up for the service pretty early on, way back when it possible to get a 3-letter username. I like to use ffg as a username everywhere, because it’s nice and short to type and because it has no phonetic pronunciation (see also: xkcd)

A long time ago, I subscribed to an RSS feed in Mail to the Twitter search feed for the string “ffg”. I now believe this to have been a mistake.

The problem is that SMS-damaged morons use “ffg” to mean “following” — this is by no means an atypical tweet:

And yeah, get off my lawn.

:: Dave Walker 10:58 (EST/EDT) [+]

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