I get that too.

Me, too. I just thought those folks were being edgy, but maybe it's a plot!

Wild, irresponsible speculation: Something to do with the fact that LJ is owned by Russians??

It's a "known issue" at LJ support, not something either they or your friends are doing on purpose.

My Twitter reposts have their headers and dates in Cyrillic, and I know maybe a dozen words of Russian. As redbird posted, it's a bug.

-- Steve finds the error intriguing, the way he finds his spam filters catching a bunch of junk mail in Arabic, Hebrew, Mandarin, Thai... the world is really shrinking, ain't it?

Yeah, my tweets come across as "Мои твиты." Just an artifact of LJ's ownership -- I'm a little surprised to see that LJ still has a US majority according to Wikipedia. I suspect if you pulled out the inactive accounts, a majority of current LJ postings are coming from Russia.