Twitter is a puzzling concept. Once you have begun your free account, you may go to http://www.twitter.com as many times as you like in a day, and you will see a long list of comments, each containing less than 140 words, from a group of people who you have chosen.
If you, like us, were pulled into this by your friends who are always becoming more and more technogically savvy and thus are always bothering you with new applications, you will see comments by said friends.
Almost none of them will say, "HELP! My hair is on fire" or "Stuck by turnstiles at Grand Central Station. Please send Metro-Card or $2.00 cash" which is what you might think a friend would wish to communicate to you, given a communications device with which they can communicate a brief, pithy, IMPORTANT message.
"Tell Laura I love her" and "Avoid 14th St. whatever the cost" are another couple of messages which actually make sense for Twitter. So you'd think.
Instead, we hear about what our friends are cooking and eating (okay, we are a foodie of sorts, so that makes sense.) We get musings on the elderliness of the crowd at a Todd Rundgren concert in Philadelphia. And some of our favorite Tweets come from people who are impersonating characters in a TV show (hey, don't you want to know how Betty Draper is coping with the holidays?)
We don't really understand why this is interesting, but we find it so. And we just started Following (getting general Tweets from) John Hodgman, the clever actor who plays "PC" on those commercials for Apple.
Go ahead. Start reading Twitter. You can begin by following us.
