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by phirephly 5502 days ago
When you treat it as a microblogging platform, yes.

Twitter isn't useful as a microblog. Twitter is useful for interacting with your internet friends from the blogosphere. It's how you text people before you trade cell phone numbers. I found this particularly useful when trying to meet up with people for the first times at conventions and Meet-n-Greets.