As someone that has not used Twitter much and often made fun of it, your response was very close to my initial answer. Thinking about it more though, I would s

As someone that has not used Twitter much and often made fun of it, your response was very close to my initial answer. Thinking about it more though, I would say that Twitter should not be compared to blogs. I think Twitter is more like IRC. Twitter is a simpler version of IRC for the masses that can be used via dumb phones. Add in hash tags, search and an easy to use filtering system, and Twitter actually seems pretty good.