Like many elder artists in music, Bob Dylan has a Twitter account. And like many elder artists in music, Bob Dylan’s Twitter account is used primarily to promote new releases, tours and occasionally to mourn the loss of a peer. Up until Sept. 25, it was safe to assume the Minnesota native had little, if anything, to do with the account. Given it’s Dylan we’re talking about here, it’s not out of the realm of possibility that Dylan didn’t even know what Twitter was. Ross Raihala (John Autey / Pioneer Press) And yet, at 5:02 p.m. on Sept. 25, the man considered by many to be one of the greatest songwriters of all time tweeted: “Happy Birthday Mary Jo! See you in Frankfort.” A huge part of Dylan’s public persona is that he’s a private — mysterious, even — guy who rarely speaks to the press and keeps his personal business under wraps. The guy even published a 304-page memoir in 2004 and yet there’s still so much about his life, his thought processes and his opinions that even his most devoted fans know nothing about. That Dylan gave us a peek beneath the hood at all was surprising enough. But who would have expected it to be so … ordinary. Banal, even. Who is Mary Jo? No one knows. Did Dylan see her in Frankfort? I hope so, I guess? (A peek at setlist.fm shows Dylan did perform the same 17 songs each night during at trio of Frankfurt concerts last month, and none of them seem to have anything to do with a woman named Mary Jo.) It turns out that was just the start, as Dylan has since tweeted six more times, each equally baffling and kind of oddly delightful: “I just found out the other day that Bob Newhart was gone. Rest in peace Bob. You brought us a lot of joy,” 12:55 p.m. Sept. 30. (Bob Newhart died on July 18 at the age of 94. I interviewed him in 2019 and he seemed like a really nice guy.) “Last time in New Orleans we ate at Dooky Chase’s Restaurant on the corner of North Miro and Orleans. If you’re ever there I highly recommend it,” 4:42 p.m. Oct. 1. (After this tweet went live, Vulture published a piece that said the pop culture website “has confirmed that the tweets are authentic and written by Dylan himself.”) “I ran into one of the Buffalo Sabres in the elevator at the Prague hotel. They were in town to play the New Jersey Devils. He invited me to the game but I was performing that night,” 4:28 p.m. Oct. 9. (While each of his tweets get hundreds of replies, Dylan has only directly responded to one left for the tweet above. An account named “Vlad hosts the best podcast in Bitcoin” replied: “Make sure you visit The Indian Jewel, it’s a great restaurant in Prague!” Dylan responded six days later with: “Sorry Vlad got your message too late. The promoter took us out to his favorite restaurant. Next time in Prague though, we’ll definitely be going to the Indian Jewel.”) “At the hotel in Frankfurt there was a publishing convention and every room was taken, parties all night. I didn’t know there were so many book publishers in the world. I was trying to find Crystal Lake Publishing so I could congratulate them on publishing The Great God Pan, one of my favorite books. I thought they might be interested in some of my stories. Unfortunately it was too crowded and I never did find them,” 2:57 p.m. Oct. 23. “Nick Newman had replied to a tweet a few weeks back asking me what movies I would recommend. I told him to try The Unknown with Lon Chaney and go from there,” 3:47 p.m. Oct. 30. Related Articles Music and Concerts | Willie Nelson on his new album, cannabis cookbook, Kris Kristofferson and what makes a good song Music and Concerts | Another Beyoncé vs. Taylor Swift showdown looms at the 2025 Grammys Music and Concerts | Concert review: Confident, carefree Maggie Rogers enchants Target Center Music and Concerts | Phil Lesh, founding member of Grateful Dead and influential bassist, has died at 84 Music and Concerts | Grammy-winning rapper Lil Durk charged with orchestrating 2022 Los Angeles killing If nothing else, we’ve learned a few things that Dylan loves: Bob Newhart, Dooky Chase’s Restaurant (and restaurant recommendations), the 1894 novella “The Great God Pan” and the 1927 silent film “The Unknown” (which co-starred Joan Crawford, by the way.) What does it all mean? Boston Globe reporter Lauren Daley went ahead and asked someone who might know, Dylan’s son Jakob, who is currently on the road with his band the Wallflowers. “Yeah, like most people, I can’t tell you what’s going on with those,” Jakob Dylan said. “I’ve seen those. I can’t (laughs) can’t tell you what that’s about. I’m not sure.” (He added that if his dad wants to do a show with him that “I’m available. He knows how to find me.”) The answer to all these questions is probably blowing in the wind. Or maybe they’ll come in Tweet No. 8.