[WS:] Twitter is not exactly a new technology - this is basically the same thing as email and SMS. I would call it a new fad. This is more like a new style of clothing - old technology, new marketing.
As I said before, I have nothing against this form of communication per se - it has certain uses just as SMS does, albeit its functionality is limited vis a vis that of email. What I dislike is the information glut that it creates, which requires extra time and effort to extract something useful out of it. It is the same like the supermarket - to get my bread milk and eggs I need to run the gantlet through rows of crap that is of zero interest to me. For that reason I dislike supermarkets too.
Stated differently, this form of communication brings us closer to the Jorge Louis Borges' concept of the "Library of Babel" http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jatill/175/libraryf.htm - a place where the problem is not the availability of information but the ease of its retrieval.
-- Wojtek
"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."