UTMC

The desire to shoot a question at a podcaster who can only be reached via the 140 character scourge has made me fold.
I'm on the twitter now. @GSLissmann
I registered with something approaching my proper name that wouldn't look suspicious to the jackbooted thugs who will surely, some day, use the thing to round up undesirables like myself.
And now I have zero clue what to do with the damn thing. I've fired off my question (no response thus far, it's regarding the episode before last, so there may never be one). And, while I enjoy finding stuff like this (seriously, if you like laughing about Ikea or big-box idiocy in general, click hence), I'm totally lost.
Heck, I've been on twitter for less than twenty four hours, I've fired of all of one tweet, and somehow ... I've got a follower! Some guy I've never even heard of, from Santa Rosa - but nothing I can find on the forum or the UTMC Map even that matches what he has divulged about himself in his twitter profile or on his website. Do we know any web-designers who have bungee-jumped off of the Victoria Falls?

Please, I feel like I've walked into an exotic restaurant, run by immigrants from a country I've never heard off and, while I can read the menus, even know the words, it's in a language I don't even know the name of. And someone has just offered me what could either be a hot beverage or a lifetime vow of silence and prayer. Is there anything I should be doing?

EDIT: The dude that's following me, I only just noticed he started doing that around 8 AM this morning (Jerry Time). I hadn't been on twitter 12 hours at that time!

don't ask me, I didn't even find any porn in 6 month, I have no clue either. my fifth and last non commercial tweet was "I really needed Twitter. As much as I needed teeth in my asshole."
just in case.

Is there anything you should be doing?




RUN LIKE THE WIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please tell me whether I got this right. If it's in the twitter FAQ, they have hidden it most expertly.
- any tweet is public. Somewhere, there's a button to limit a tweet to be seen only by my followers, but by default, anyone can see it. Same goes for retweets.
- anyone who has made the grave error of following me (Hi, GG! ) will have any tweet I make delivered to them automatically.
- if I use a #somethingorother, anyone checking into #somethingorother will see that tweet, whether they follow me or not.
- if I tweet something to someone in particular, by starting the tweet with their @username, all my followers and anyone pimping into my profile gets to see it, and the recipient. But their followers won't see it, unless they retweet or respond.

Is that about right?

Sounds about right, but your followers may miss some of your tweets if they're not online at something close to the same time as you, though if you @ someone they will always be notified.