I did a basic look on Twitter and didn't find anything of note. Remember, too, that even though Twitter was created in 2006, it didn't get popular in the mainstream until a few years later. Most of our victims/possible victims had died by then..save for Waterman, Barthelemy, and Gilbert. I also looked for people related to the case (Pak, Brewer, Schaller, family members-not Coletti because I doubt any 80 year old man is going to use Twitter!), but again, I didn't see anything notable. All I really came up with was Sherre Gilbert's and she writes about mundane stuf as she should because she's trying to live her life as normally as possible I would hope.
One problem with Twitter is that large in part, if you're not famous or promoting something, people learn quickly that its fairly boring. They sign up, make like 3 tweets and go away. Many never fill out a profile or put up a photo. I know I just use mine to read news, weather, and celebrity updates. I probably haven't posted in 3 months.
" Most of our victims/possible victims had died by then..save for Waterman, Barthelemy, and Gilbert."
Yes. They are the people I had in mind. Plus, if they did have Twitter pages, they might have since been shut down and/or they used aliases when they opened their accounts.
With the possible exceptions of Amber Costello and Shannan Gilbert, I'm wondering if the perp Might be keeping the phones of the victims as part of his trophy collection.
"All I really came up with was Sherre Gilbert's and she writes about mundane stuf as she should because she's trying to live her life as normally as possible I would hope."
If Shannan Gilbert is a victim of the serial killer, Might he be following Sherre Gilbert's tweets? Doesn't the perp like to glean information regarding the victims' lives? What if the perp also tweets? What if the perp at some point got sloppy and tweeted with an unsecured mobile device?
Here are some Twitter stats with links:
Mashable Social Media
13% of Online Americans Use Twitter [STATS]
June 01, 2011 by Lauren Indvik
http://mashable.com/2011/06/01/twitter-pew-study/
"Much of that growth came from younger adults, Pew found. Nearly one in five U.S. Internet users ages 25 to 34 use Twitter, up from 9% in November."
Pew Internet
Pew Internet & American Life Project
8% of online Americans use Twitter
Dec. 9, 2010
by Aaron Smith, Lee Rainie
http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Twitter-Update-2010/Findings/Overview.aspx
"Some of the groups who are notable for their relatively high levels of Twitter use include:
Young adults Internet users ages 18-29 are significantly more likely to use Twitter than older adults.
African-Americans and Latinos Minority internet users are more than twice as likely to use Twitter as are white internet users.
Urbanites Urban residents are roughly twice as likely to use Twitter as rural dwellers."
Mashable Social Media
STATS: Young People Are Flocking to Twitter
September 02, 2009
by Adam Ostrow
http://mashable.com/2009/09/02/twitter-demographics/
"The share of visitors to Twitter under the age of 35 is increasing at a breakneck pace. The most notable positive shifts are evident among the 12-17 and 18-24 year old segments, which are coming at the expense of the 35+ segments.