not a dumb question at all...
twitter is a dumb website that allows to to get too much irrelevant information on too many irrelevant things 
part of the global trend of getting waayy too much personal info out on the web..
It happens to have a SSM page - which is the only reason to visit the site from time to time
http://twitter.com/ssm2007
LOL! I agree and disagree. As with any tool, the usage is in the hand of the user. So dumb users dumb the tool down, while smart users make it useful. Twitter is no different than email, VoIP, IM etc. It is only newer
Basically Twitter is a very small and fast blog system with additional options for pushing SMS-like messages. Some use it to tell all their followers that they've just egressed the latrine, and got dressed. Some people find these kind of posts extremely interesting.
In our case, we use Twitter as a direct messaging channel between our Ground Crew (which is usually underground) and whomever is interested in what we do - customer or not. It is used as an informal "behind the scenes message-in-a-bottle".
Many of the SSM2007 Twitter messages do not make it as official forum announcements, and those who do, usually come after they found their way on Twitter
One thing is sure however: you'll never see on the SSM2007 Twitter messages involving highly personal, insulting, vulgar and unrelated snippets of "news" (or so we all hope)!
/Admin
