Twitter’s army of peeping Toms

James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas undercover video project has discovered that Big Brother is alive and well, and living on Market Street in San Francisco, in a beautifully restored 1.1 million square foot art deco masterpiece formerly known as the Western Furniture Exchange and Merchandise Mart.

O’Keefe’s latest video reveals that Twitter – according to its own employees is paying “hundreds of people” to examine “private” messages sent by Twitter users to one another. The nine-and-a-half minute video ought to be enough to convince anyone to avoid using Twitter for any messages that might cause embarrassment to the sender. The blackmail potential revealed is stunning, as is the sheer creepiness of the entire effort: