I don't follow anybody who tells us how many Cokes they drank today or what they had for breakfast. Or rather, only the chefs on my list discuss meals during the day. I've looked at several interesting folks and decided to skip following them because they haven't quite "got it" as far as how often and what to post. An essay, one sentence at a time for 20 tweets in a row isn't the best use of Twitter. A blog entry written, then a tweet telling people it is now posted, is entirely suitable. There are people who post through the day, others who post in spurts of several at a time. I just don't want someone who posts all day long about nothing in particular.

Your old pals Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich Twitter, though not often. I'm only following his tweets, and he sends along notices when he'll be appearing on interviews. Diane Rehm is the one who finally got me to check it out. Their program doesn't use it much, but sometimes during programs if the calls are light they'll send out a real time tweet asking for responses to a specific question that are then read out on the air.

David Pogue has illustrated what you can do with Twitter by writing an entire book in the last couple of months, collected from over 25,000 posts he solicited based on several "questions of the day" that people responded to. It was really quite funny at times; he has some very clever followers.

SRS