I think an underrated problem is that new users are all greeted with these directions: "... answers to one simple question: What are you doing?" I bet that few

I think an underrated problem is that new users are all greeted with these directions: "... answers to one simple question: What are you doing?" I bet that fewer than 10% of the interesting tweets I've read involved what the author was doing. But this quote leads to the mistaken public perception that twitter is just a bunch of people talking about what they had for breakfast. Many new users send out one or two boring tweets, assume everyone else is doing the same, and give up on it -- much like how the author described his original Twitter experience. I'm not sure what a better prompt would be -- maybe "What are you thinking?", or nothing at all. Regardless, I'm sure they could make a sizable impact on public perception and newbie usage patterns by changing that quote.