Twitter is only interesting because it happens to be the current iteration of instant messenger / community chatroom. Kik, AOL IM, ICQ, IRC.. there's no particu

Twitter is only interesting because it happens to be the current iteration of instant messenger / community chatroom. Kik, AOL IM, ICQ, IRC.. there's no particular innovation from Twitter keeping users there. It just happened to be in the right place at the right time, and right now it seems as though anything with a half decent design UI and interesting set of features could sprout up to draw migration from twitters core/casual userbase.