I hate twitter, I'll never use it. Do you agree with this article, insom? Twitter is "good" for getting bitesized, relatively unimportant news (in my circles, it's usually "Cardinals first baseman not starting tonight, sore ankle" or "what.cd freeleech is up" etc -- but I use reddit reposts of tweets instead because it's better) and as far as I can tell, for absolutely nothing else. Basically just an alert service. I had this conversation, at length, with a journalist last weekend. I argued that twitter and shortform journalism -- like, some BBC articles are less than 200 words long now! -- are destroying the medium, and our minds, and so on. First past the post. He agreed to an extent but seemed to support their potential for quick news.Twitter is good for two things: engaging with #Brands, and broadcasting messages to whoever wants to read them — and of course the most widely broadcast are always jokes.