THE TIME SINK of Twitter is a wonderful place to keep up with your Marafiki and interests. au if wewe prefer, waste your idle time snooping on other people whom wewe 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 kwa the looks of things is a bit of a fan, wrote, "Innocent Internet users were fooled kwa the hoax, spreading messages to their...