I first read about Twitter in this [0] Wired article in 2007. I admit that I pretty much agreed: "pointless email on steroids." "You can't say anything in such

I first read about Twitter in this [0] Wired article in 2007. I admit that I pretty much agreed: "pointless email on steroids." "You can't say anything in such a short message... So why do it at all?" There must be an aphorism to do with obvious solutions to obvious problems are already solved. So the hidden gems are the inverse: Counter-intuitive solutions to problems we didn't know we had. [0] http://www.wired.com/2007/06/st-thompson-4/ http://www.wired.com/2007/06/st-thompson-4/