Choosing to follow Ken Jennings on Twitter, one might expect to be

Choosing to follow Ken Jennings on Twitter, one might expect to be titillated with 140-character outbursts of brain-teasers or trivia, or perhaps a random musing about maps. What one gets, though, tends to go something like this: “The cool thing about someone saying they’re a ‘cineaste’ is that then you get to murder them.” Sometimes a self-effacing Seattle dad, other times a crude social commentator, Jennings seems to have caught a second gust of celebrity after his record-breaking 2004 run on Jeopardy! He has 132,500 followers, and, if this tweet is any indication, people like it: “All my relationships should be like Twitter, where I just randomly talk about myself all day and everyone tells me how great that is.” Not bad for someone ESPN the Magazine claimed had the “personality of a hall monitor.” Fear not, trivia fans, Jennings doesn’t forsake trivia completely. He’ll link you to the various freelance columns he writes. And just the other day, he dropped this nugget: “TRIVIA TIME! Ben Franklin believed our national bird should NOT be the bald eagle but rather ‘this bitchin’ thunderbird I painted on my van.’ ” So there you go.