The lose-lose situation
When you post something on the internet, it's there forever, and there's no takesies-backsies. I get that. Still, something about the Twitter-parasite Twittangle (that's "Twit tangle" not "Twitt angle") rubs me the wrong way.
Basically, it is a way to organize your Twitter timeline to only show the people whose tweets you want to read. You know, in case you tripped and hit your left mouse button while the cursor precariously hovered over the "follow" link for Sir Tweetsalot, and the fall broke the mouse so you couldn't unfollow, and you live in an area that has internet access but no nearby mouse dispensaries. And you have no keyboard.
Or, in a perhaps more likely situation, you are a douchebag who follows people not because you want to read what they write but because of the possibility that when they are informed that they have a new reader, they will go to your uninteresting Twitter page / collection of porn links.
Point your browser to http://www.twittangle.com/user/your-user-name, if you have a Twitter account. Look, it's your tweets! Now, before you get all in a huff, this is perfectly within their rights to do (unless you've protected your profile). Lots of other websites do it, and like I said before, it's the internet, get used to it.
What gives me piloerection (look it up) is that to opt out of this service, you have to give up even more of your data.
Each page has a link to opt out; clicking it takes you to this page:
And clicking once more takes you to this page:
Yeah. See, if I trusted them with my information I wouldn't be in this situation to begin with.
Actual information alert:
According to Twitter's terms of service, you retain the rights to all of you tweets, and this is unlikely to ever change. And let's face it, there isn't much worth plagiarizing in 140 characters anyway.
However, one of Twitter's strengths (and indeed one of the reasons it has garnered so much attention) is in its API. Essentially, their API gives any blob of meat capable of writing code the ability to access and display tweets, as long as they (the meat blob) follow some very sensible rules.
This is a good thing. A great thing -- there are some incredible mashups out there, like the hilarious cursebird, the hilariously sad Tweeting too hard, and the very cool Billie tweets (which is down at the moment).
But for every cursebird there is a turdbird like Twittangle. Something to keep in mind as you gradually transition all of your thoughts to the internet.