I've been following the U.S. Secret Service on Twitter ever since last week when they established a new account. It fascinates me to think about a man in a trench coat and a fedora, blending in on a park bench with his concealed piece while tweeting away on his Blackberry. Normally their tweets are really dull. Nothing top secret, understand: nothing about grassy knolls or underworld spies like you might think. Most of their tweets have been about recruitment fairs mixed with modestly-phrased bragging about 50K runs. And they refuse to follow anyone else on Twitter, which I don't think is playing well with others. When I last checked Twitter at 9:45 p.m., they were being followed by 19,773 people but not one of us made the cut as a followee.