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It's for communication. Pretty much a fundamental need for the human animal.

• axod 19y ago
  Email, IM, IRC are for communication. Twitter seems to be more for "Announcing" rather than communicating. Maybe I'm just not well connected enough, but I really doubt anyone in the world cares what I'm currently doing day to day. The people that do care, I communicate with via more appropriate methods.
  • greendestiny 19y ago
    It's still communicating, and that's what it's for. I mean I get what you're saying, you don't want to communicate anything that's particularly suited to a twitter sort of form, and that that form of communication therefore seems trivial. I'm just saying communication forms a fundamental need, and if something facilitates that then thats what its for.
  • martianpenguin 19y ago
    Announcing or Broadcasting are still forms of communication. Email, IM, and IRC don't really allow you to do that. That's why I think Twitter fills a gap in communication methods. A lot of people don't like to broadcast their life. I understand that, but some people do like to let other people know what's going on.