I've been meaning to write another post on twitter, to try and explain it better to those of you who are not yet converted (ahem. Mom? Cate?) Then I came across this video on the twitter blog:
How Do You Use Twitter? from biz stone on Vimeo. My favorite reason? When you see someone you haven't seen in a long time and the conversation goes like this: "Hey! What you been up to?" "Not much. And you?" "Not much either." And then the conversation just kind of stalls. But you know you've been up to a lot of interesting things! It's just that when you are put on the spot like that, you never seem to recall any of it. Twitter eliminates the need for such awkwardness.