Also consider that it provides a 'service' that people want and/or enjoy.
The internet has changed, it was born as a means to share physics data, quickly it grew to provide services that made our lives easier/better (online banking, wikipedia, search, photo sharing, travel, real-estate, the list goes on and on..) Then, another change happened.
The internet passed the point of making real-world services more efficient, and social activities became prevalent.
Successful apps no longer need to be useful in any way, it's enough that they are fun, or help you vent, or provide a way to reach more people, to express, or in essence to be human. The wonderful thing is that the tools to make these new applications have also matured and become easy enough that a small number of people (as small as 1) can build something that is used by millions.
Remember the days when you needed a team of ops people and c programmers to deal with networking and file systems and all that nonsense. Now you can deploy a web app with very little code and very little skill? This is a wonderful thing.
It doesn't matter if you like Twitter or not, its something that a lot of other people do like and the wonderful thing about the internet is that there is room for everyone. (well, with ip6 there is :)
Twitters entire concept is just a head spin, As a casual bystander to the twit phase, I gather that 90% of the posts are either ego trips, basic daily occurrences, spam or marketing.
Why can't you meet your friends for coffee instead of twittering them about it from Starbucks.
The internet has changed, it was born as a means to share physics data, quickly it grew to provide services that made our lives easier/better (online banking, wikipedia, search, photo sharing, travel, real-estate, the list goes on and on..) Then, another change happened.
The internet passed the point of making real-world services more efficient, and social activities became prevalent.
Successful apps no longer need to be useful in any way, it's enough that they are fun, or help you vent, or provide a way to reach more people, to express, or in essence to be human. The wonderful thing is that the tools to make these new applications have also matured and become easy enough that a small number of people (as small as 1) can build something that is used by millions.
Remember the days when you needed a team of ops people and c programmers to deal with networking and file systems and all that nonsense. Now you can deploy a web app with very little code and very little skill? This is a wonderful thing.
It doesn't matter if you like Twitter or not, its something that a lot of other people do like and the wonderful thing about the internet is that there is room for everyone. (well, with ip6 there is :)