I have no idea what the point of Twitter is, but I do know what the Numbers Stations are, including a station that's been colloquially called Ready, Ready (officially known to the Spooks list as E1; listen to it from the Conet Project here.)
Most of us who tune in to and are fascinated by the Numbers Stations are taken in by the wonderful weirdness and mystery of the whole thing so when something like this Twitter page called readyready showed up recently, it rekindled my interest in Cold War ephemera and late night short wave listening sessions. It's also as good a time as any to repeat the Conet Project's Six Degrees of Separation:
Everyone on earth is connected to everyone else; it only takes six steps to get from any one person to any other person on the planet, hence the phrase 'Six Degrees of Separation'. If this really is the case, then we should be able to track down people who worked in Numbers Stations from the last three decades, simply by deploying the special cards that we have produced.
Hopefully the people that we are able to locate (and that are willing to divulge their secrets to us) will have kept a private, detailed record of what they did, the decisions that were made, who made them, why, and everything else we are keen to know. We may finally find out why a little girl's voice was thought to be appropriate for use in a Numbers Station!
We are very sensitive to matters of privacy. This system has the wonderful side effect of being completely anonymous, so that when you participate in it, there is no way for us to know who sent which card to whom, should we score a 'hit'.
So far, to the best of my knowledge, nobody has answered the challenge.
You can hear my own experiences with Numbers Stations, as well as my own WWdN Poacher, which I made as a clue in the still-unsolved photoblog mystery, in my old audioblog.
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