Twitter Publishes Bizarre Online White Pages

Ever wished you could just leaf through Twitter profiles like you were looking through a phone book?

Probably not. But if there is a situation where that could conceivably be useful, you're in luck. Twitter quietly launched an online profile directory this week, with profiles neatly arranged at roughly 100 to a page.

The profiles are listed by first name, rather than Twitter handle, which is odd enough. But to find them you'll have to burrow down through encyclopedia-like category pages -- which for popular or common names is worse than useless.

For instance, Justin Bieber's profile is under "JustBooks.in jzzzzzzzzz." But to find the actual singer, you'd have to wade throu…
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