Twitternews for the Twitterfaithful

I haven’t made the move to Twitter yet – call me a Luddite, please – but the news about the popular 140-character communication software continues unabated. And, perhaps because of the name itself and how easy it is to create new words with it – ie. the Twittersphere – my fascination continues.

Over at Techcrunch, Michael Arrington ruminates about how Twitter has become a monopoly in the micro-blogging space, now completely indispensable for many execs and techfolks, even though the service’s service quality problems and outages are frequent and troublesome. “I now need Twitter more than Twitter needs me,” he half-laments. “It’s a huge marketing tool, and information tool. But it is also a social habit that’s hard to kick.”

Would that make him a Twitteraddict?

Meanwhile, over at C/net, Jessica Dolcourt last week wrote about the uptick in Twitterspam. This follows a Mashable post about Twitterspam that explains the surge in new Twitter subscriptions that are actually fake accounts used to advertise something or other. She argues for better native blocking tools for the service and mentions an app called – what else? -- Twitter Twerp Scan that was created to find Twitterspammers -- or are they Twitterscammers?