Twitter is like the town crier: you know it exists, you hear it (and see it) often, but it rarely has anything of substance to say on its own--only mentions of this and that. This is, of course, due to the 140 character limitation--by its very nature it is mostly a tool that says "Hey, here's a morsel of thought about something--now go check it out." Twitter refers; it does not explain.
At the end of the day, Twitter is a "community" that is good to be a part of if one is interested not in being a member of a community that is itself substantive, but a community that constantly refers to content outside of itself. So in this way, as long as you're a person who's interested in having access to and digesting new information, Twitter can be great.
Another important part of enjoying the Twitter experience is only following people or organizations that you're truly interested in being connected to--who would likely post links that you would genuinely enjoy spending time consuming. Otherwise, Twitter simply becomes so much unintelligible online clamor--some kind of scary close cousin to spam mail and internet pop-up ads. Nobody needs that in their lives.
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