Twitter - My Initial Thoughts

So I was reading the latest "Twitter" post on Shoemoney.com yesterday. After commenting that I was "twittered out" from

reading about Twitter every day, I was surprised to see my comment was never "approved" to be published. Funny how that works. Anyway, I found it interesting that Shoemoney was actually finding it useful, so I visited his Twitter site/blog/whatever.

Un-interestingly I found a list of random posts and responses in no particularly relevent flow. It was kind of like peering into a private chat room, but only being able to see every other comment or so. You can't really figure out what is being talked about, but apparently some kind of conversation is going on.

It got me to thinking about how it appears folks are using the tool. They seem to be having conversations with small groups (cliques) of people. Kind of useful to that small group. Kind of useless to the rest of the world. So why make these posts public? They have no value. They wasted about 5 minutes of my life I'll never get back just trying to find something of substance.

I can totally see the value of having these collaborative threads to keep in touch with friends. I have yet to see any value in following someone you don't know.

However I am apparently the minority, since there appears to be almost 500 fellow twits following Shoemoney's twitting... I feel sorry for those chaps... ;-)