Calling All Twitizens to the Twitterverse

It's time to tweet.

Here's a really basic intro to Twitter for individual users:

http://www.commoncraft.com/video/twitter


Media expert Deanna Zandt offers some great guides for signing up:

http://www.deannazandt.com/twitter-guides/

And now, the writers who have tried to make sense of it:

• An article from Time magazine from 2009 by author Steven Johnson--more of a THING feature.

• And more of an IDEA feature (or "think piece) from the New York Times magazine about "digital intimacy," by tech columnist Clive Thompson.