Randy Cassingham, the compiler of the inimitable This Is True newsletter, wrote last month about Twitter: Why You Should Care. He doesn't say anything new, but he's got a great way of expressing the basics.
And he doesn't mince words:
The main problem, I think, is that Twitter's founders didn't really "get" what would make it useful. That's made clear on your Twitter home page, where the little box that you type your updates into asks you to answer the question, "What are you doing?" Twitter's power users have disregarded that, and made the site useful by applying their own ideas as to what it's all about.
This is the secret to making Twitter really useful: No one cares what it is you're doing.When people put in there that they're "Waking up to face the day." or
"Eating a bologna sandwich for lunch.", it means they have no clue as
to the power of Twitter -- and no respect for their friends' time.
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