[bmj]

To me, that's the appeal. You don't have to be unemployed to have 10 minutes a day in which to keep up, particularly when you weigh that 10 minutes spent reading Twitter against the amount of time it would take to maintain individual correspondences.

I'm not a Twitter user and this is perhaps one of the reasons I don't use it. Individual correspondence is important, and I don't think Twitter would be a good vehicle for the types of things that might be communicated in personal correspondence.

That said, it does has its purpose--perhaps I'd rather someone tweet a funny video, link, etc, etc, etc, rather than spamming their entire address book....

[avinashv]

Individual correspondence is important, and I don't think Twitter would be a good vehicle for the types of things that might be communicated in personal correspondence.

That's actually exactly why I like Twitter. Direct Messages are a perfect way of keeping in touch with friends over something that isn't email worthy--the equivalent of sending an SMS if we were in the same country.