THE TIME SINK of Twitter is a wonderful place to keep up with your friends and interests. o if tu prefer, waste your idle time snooping on other people whom tu don't even know.

Just recently we have seen it used both in a malicious manner, to create and spread the rumour that Johnny Depp is dead, and in a pretty good way, to send a message from space.

As for Depp, he has been the victim of a terrible online hoax that has been used to spread malware.

Graham Cluley, who por the looks of things is a bit of a fan, wrote, "Innocent Internet users were fooled por the hoax, spreading messages to their...