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>>> There are also hard-to-disprove rumors that you could blackmail high profile people with.

This is exactly how the GCHQ use Twitter:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140224/17054826340/new-sn...

"Among the core self-identified purposes of JTRIG are two tactics: (1) to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets; and (2) to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable"