"...I would give a lot of credit to the 3rd party developers for getting most of those 99% of normal people on Twitter in the first place." No, you either don'

"...I would give a lot of credit to the 3rd party developers for getting most of those 99% of normal people on Twitter in the first place." No, you either don't spend enough time with these 'normal' people or you are simply too biased. As someone in University right now watching his 'normal' friends and colleagues join Twitter, and even just other 'normal' people in general -- very few to none use a Twitter client, they all use the Web. The one exception that I've seen some use are Blackberry people and ÜberTwitter. I think one reason geeks like us use clients is to have a constant flow and connection of updates coming from Twitter. 'Normal' people on the other hand use it in a more 'get-in-and-out' sense, they get on and post what they're doing, read what the last few things their friends wrote and then get back on to Facebook or whatever.