I dunno if I am stating the obvious, here, but Twitter's inanity is entirely dependent on whose "tweets" you are reading. More generally, in the community I am

I dunno if I am stating the obvious, here, but Twitter's inanity is entirely dependent on whose "tweets" you are reading. More generally, in the community I am involved in, Twitter has stepped into the gap left by the lack of a comfortable mechanism of interaction through Atom/RSS feeds ("blogs", comments and trackbacks are not convenient enough to use for many purposes).