Twitter sceptic (Tweptic??)

I'm doing the stuff - reading about Twitter, how good it is for libraries, and I now have signed up some libraries to follow. But how far do you have to go with all this stuff? Heck - I'm just getting used to texting! I suppose Twitter is a more exciting way of texting, without all the hrrble txtng lnguge. Texters can at least feel secure in the knowledge that only the texter and recipient will be reading the message, initially anyway. Tweets are public property. I don't really need to know if someone's had porridge for breakfast 3 mornings in a row, but this sort of info comes into the 'ambient awareness' tag, according to Clive Thompson, quoted in "How Twitter will change the way we live" (Steven Johnson, Time Magazine, 5 Jun 2009). The mere fact that most 23 Things programs feature Twitter tells me that I have to move away from scepticism. If it's good enough for our National Library to tweet, it's good enough for me. Tweet tweet.