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The Weiner weirdness

What a creep.

As The Post reports today, it turns out that Twitter, for the recently married Rep. Anthony Weiner, is a cool place to meet girls.

Which may well explain why he was following the Twitter account of a winsome 21-year-old community-college student from Seattle, Gennette Cordova, who last weekend received a lewd photo apparently originating from the congressman's own Twitter feed.

And maybe why, during an extraordinarily contentious Washington press briefing yesterday, Weiner repeatedly refused to answer any questions on the incident.

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Weiner initially claimed he was the victim of a hacker -- and then tried to dismiss the whole thing as a harmless "prank."

But by Monday night, the lawmaker had lawyered up -- saying he might pursue "civil or criminal" avenues, although he still hasn't called the cops and yesterday refused to say why.

That's strange: Identity theft involving ordinary people, let alone a congressman, is a serious crime.

So why the reticence to go after someone he says hacked into his accounts, and thus to clear his name as the candidate field forms for the 2013 mayoral race?

Does he hope that the story will just fade away? Not likely.

It's significant that while more than 40,000 people have signed on to "follow" Weiner on Twitter, he himself "follows" a mere 198.

One of them was Cordova.

Another was New Jersey nurse Nicole Aquino: "I followed him originally, I'm a fan of his politics. Then he tweeted me back asking if I thought it was all right if he could follow me. I was flattered he wanted to follow me back."

Weiner also follows young ladies in Florida, California and Texas, The Post reports today.

Significantly, when two people follow each other on Twitter, they can send private messages. But it's not hard to inadvertently send one that's public -- the equivalent of "reply to all" on e-mail.

The volatile Weiner's many quirks have already raised serious questions about his fitness to run City Hall.

For that reason alone, there is a compelling public interest in finding out who sent the offending photo, and why.

Weiner needs to turn the matter over to law-enforcement officials and let them sort out the details.