[axod]

I just don't get twitter. I saw some idiot who wrote an article using twitter. So of course each paragraph was 140 characters or less.

Just because you can use a tool to do something, doesn't mean you should.

IMHO, IM/IRC/email/blog all work far better for communication.

[vlbrown]

So, you saw one person use Twitter in a certain way, thought that way was silly, drew a generalization to the entire service, and you decided you knew everything abut it?

Someone uses the telephone to do telemarketing to try to sell you carpet and from that you understand what the telephone is "for"?

IM/IRC/email/blog are all different - from each other and from Twitter. As is the telephone. Or SMS. Or...

[axod]

ok. To clarify... I've seen many many articles showing how you can use twitter to do X. When it just seems that there's already a far more suited way to do X.

I'm sure it's sort of useful for some things for some people, but I can't see it going mainstream.