Being the hep cool web cats that we are, the Welling­ton­ista has recent­ly set our­selves up a Twit­ter account so that we can send out updates about what you should do with your­selves. If you’re already a twit­ter user, head on over to our account and sign up to receive the word from the streets, gen­er­al­ly at a one-or-two updates per day rate. If you haven’t used Twit­ter before, we’ve got a lit­tle spe­cif­ic how-to after the jump.

What the heck is Twit­ter? Accord­ing to their web­site

Twit­ter is “a ser­vice that asks:“what are you doing? Here’s my lat­est update:”

But we say that Twit­ter is an easy & free way to send out a text mes­sage (or IM/web update if that’s more your bag) to sub­scribers. You can both receive updates from friends and post updates from your phone with­out need­ing any WAP or com­pli­cat­ed giz­mos.

What are you plan­ning on doing with Twit­ter? We want to be able to tell you what’s going on in Welling­ton in a time­ly easy man­ner, so that (for exam­ple) late ris­ers can get a “the trol­ley wires are down, leave ear­li­er for work” warn­ing, or that there’s a drink spe­cial on at a bar, or a per­son in an ani­mal cos­tume on the street for you to molest. It’s just a new idea to us, so no doubt it’ll evolve over time to fit our needs, and your needs too. Because after all, the Welling­ton­ista love you as much as we love Welling­ton.

Why do you feel the need to use Twit­ter? Because we’re hep cool cats and we want to be as down with the kids as Rus­sell. Obvi­ous­ly.

Okay, you’ve sold me. But how can I receive just Welling­ton­ista texts, and not Jo’s drunk­en rants to my phone? You can turn off all text noti­fi­ca­tions in your phone, and then turn on indi­vid­ual ones, by tex­ting “FOLLOW + user name” to Twit­ter (see the Twit­ter site for indepth infor­ma­tion on how to set up your phone).

Wow, thanks Welling­ton­ista! You make me look cool and pop­u­lar That’s not a ques­tion, but we’ll grate­ful­ly accept the com­pli­ment.