Correspondent of the Day: What in Blue Blazes Is Twittering, Exactly?

What in Blue Blazes Is Twittering, Exactly?
Editor, Times-Dispatch: Being a generally optimistic sort, I rise from the comfort of my bed each morning still believing that the world has not reached an optimum level of stupidity -- and then there's twittering.

What in blue blazes is the idea behind this silliness? Is there some secret cabal of over-educated, mentally deprived Northern California vegans that has managed to come up with this exercise in groupthink? Now I have to lose sleep worrying if spaces or punctuation marks count as characters? I think they do in Morse Code. The only good part of this foolishness to date is that the designer hasn't figured out how to make any money yet. When he/she/it finally does, I suppose it'll be called twaddling.

I really have just one question: Why? I shudder to think that we have created a society that actually thinks of twittering as a useful way to spend time, energy, or, God help us, money. But all of this comes from a guy with a cell phone, useful only for phone calls, that has rested in my desk drawer for more than three years.

Dick Lennard.
Midlothian.