I freely admit that Twitter is pretty cool. I can follow other people’s inanities all day long, if I so choose. I throw out my own character-limited banalities and move along to the next thing.

You see where I’m going with this. After using Twitter for a year, I have yet to use it for anything further than time-killing. Really. I have yet to see any of the people I follow use it for anything more than time-killing. I realize that the plural of “anecdote” is not “data,” but I’m not seeing the upside to Twitter beyond idle chatting.

Nothing wrong with that, if that’s all you want... but then I could just IM friends, or even write an email. There even exists a wealth of phone options.

What is the best method to capture a moment of information? Need we confine it to a social context?