So I figured out a reason to use twitter. No, not publishing random thoughts--anything worth a tweet is too infrequent. And not describing my daily whereabouts--there's little utility in that. What I'm doing instead is a fitness activity log. Not that anyone will care, but it does a) provide me a log which is useful for training and b) give some extra motivation vis-à-vis the mere possibility that my friends and co-workers might check it out.