[jghn]

Granted I'm an old fogie no longer in the target demo for hip stuff (turning 40 imminently) but I don't know what I'd do w/o Twitter. I communicate with friends, use it as a defacto news aggregator, an aggregator for chatter on various topics that interest me, a way to discover new things, keep up semi-professional acquaintances (largely w/ people I've never met in person) and even met a handful of friends w/ it.

I've no interest in the visual based media that's slowly replacing it, but I've always been more of a text person than a picture person anyways. Also I like being able to quickly scan dozens of messages instead of the large amount of real estate a picture would take up in relative terms.

And speaking of the compact size, I find the 140 char limit to be feature, not bug. At least for the people I follow they generally use that as a way to hone their thoughts and not just blather about.

I have my complaints, nothing is perfect but while I enjoy using FB losing Twitter would put a giant hole in my day to day life.