I don't really get it either. I've tweeted once in the few months I've had it.
I have used the search function a few times, when trying to get glasto tickets and when the Chilean miners were being rescued, for a constantly updating stream containing the odd bit of useful info but using the 'latest' function in google works much better.
It reminds me a little of the Halloween joke my eldest told this evening (and was quite funny):
"What do little birds say on Halloween?
Trick or tweet!"
At my old job one of the senior managers used to give his weekly/monthly/when he could be arsed/ blogs. I used to laugh to myself and delete the "b" from his "blog" and imagined him struggling...
I twitter..to watch vid's if any and gotta love TopGear and my fav. tv shows ;-)..including a few funny comedians
TechCrunch is also a good one about technology
Yep I've tried, I really have, but I just don't see the point. Now that Cheesey has stopped tweeting there really isn't much left. It appears to be used by businesses as a kind of mini-blog, but I just can't think of anything interesting to say so I just hang around here instead!
I've looked at it, and, as you say, I don't see the point, other than as a self-infatuation. But then I'm not a big fan of social media anyway. I much prefer private media, like chats, and totally public media like fora, or the old-fashioned but still very effective mailing lists...
I never tweet. I do however find twitter useful as a source of information by following
informative people/sources. eg
CNN
BBC
Several local newspapers
LFC information (obviously lol)
A couple of local photographers
etc
It's also useful to search twitter for your hometown, you can usually
find events taking place.
i.e use twitter to your advantage by following people/sources of information
that you are actually interested in and by not following a load of tossers.
I'm hoping to use it to keep a record of my exercise as I fail miserably at keeping paper records/diary.
It also comes in handy to look up news, recipes, specific articles when I'm sitting bored in the car waiting for SWMBO to come out of the supermarket, train station etc...