Twitter hands over messages at heart of Occupy case

And never will.

I like Twitter about a million times better than mucking around with Facebook.

which is one more reason I love it. I use firefox + the noscript extension everywhere to keep the advertising and pop-up junk down that I have to view. Noscript suppresses all that very well. But even when I disable it I don't see anything annoying.

As for spam-- you are in control of all your own content. You don't have to feel obliged to read and "follow" or interact with anybody just because they follow you.

I initially created my feed to promote some stuff I design for Zazzle, and tried to be reciprocal followers of hordes of others doing the same and "following" me, but the immense, endless overwhelming streams self-advertising soon made me rethink all of that, including my own activity, so I "unfollowed" a whole host of stuff I was never going to have time to weed thru. I try to mix things up a little (in both what I follow for fun and interest and what I tweet/retweet) and not subject others to the same monotony--I save the commercial stuff mostly for my fb business page, much as I really dislike fb's interface. What I really love about twitter is it's sheer brevity and wonderful ease of use.

I really don't tweet/retweet that much political stuff, though, because that isn't why I created that account- except for just about everything that comes my way from Bernie Sanders

(edited for typo)