[phillian]

This - "Twitter... It reflects the true asymmetry of human relationships."

What I loved about Twitter is that it gave me the onus of choice to include or ignore people that may have attended school with me, may have worked with me at one point, etc... but for one reason or another I no longer wanted involved in my personal lives. (Yes, I know Facebook has privacy walls but we all know how permeable they haven proven to be, nevermind their disconcerting rewording of the Terms of Service).

Twitter is also more inclusive and consistent with the 'whole character' of a person. On Facebook it is easy to be typecast or become monofocused among one group.. family, college classmates, frat buddies, whatever.

On Twitter I can lament my horrible Redskins every Sunday and talk affiliate marketing, code, or fishing in Alaska without breaking a stride.

Not to mention, I think the barrier to communicating with people we identify as 'out of reach' is much lower on Twitter than any other medium. Name an author and with effort you can probably exchange with them on Twitter.

Getting them to friend you back on Facebook? Probably not.

For the record, I am: http://twitter.com/phillian

[natesm]

I like Twitter because it is simple[1]. 140 char messages, reverse chronological order. That's it.

[1] I use Twitter for Mac, the website is kind of a mess actually.

[richardburton]

I completely agree. I am lots of things. I am different things to different people. I love hanging out with kiters and coders and sometimes those two groups of people overlap and sometimes they do not.