[andrewfelix]

>It's a stream of mostly nonsensical 140 char messages.

This maybe true for a lot of tweets. But my stream is filled with live updates of interesting stuff from around the world.

Twitter has been instrumental in getting news out of war zones for example.

[colmvp]

Yeah I don't know why Twitter gets so much hate. It is similar to Reddit: What you get is what you subscribe to.