What's Twitter All About?

If you have tried twitter and don't get it or simply haven't jumped in yet, here's a great post from Zen Habit's Leo Babauta explaining how to get started, as well as some great uses for twitter. You can follow on me Twitter and Leo on Twitter.
A Minimalist’s Guide to Using Twitter Simply, Productively, and Funly

This morning after our hill run my sister asked me about Twitter: “What’s Twitter all about? I don’t get it?”

Neither did I at first — I resisted using Twitter for more than a year because it seemed like just another distraction, just another way to waste time and have noisy chatter going on in front of you.

But I decided to see what the fuss was all about, and did my Great Twitter Experiment. To my surprise, Twitter was actually fun, interesting, and useful — if used correctly.