Dan, I dunno, I guess the jury is still out. It is true to say that when I’ve got a lot to do, the Twhirl application is the first to get binned and I’m not an SMS Twitter user for much the same reason.

I originally posted on the timesink tendency of Twitter and although I’m now a fan, I’m still concerned at the noise, certainly on a day to day basis. But that’s true of lots of stuff – again, I’m finding I’ve got 700 feed items unread; again, I’m likely to just say “screw this, I’ll bin them” – which is ironic given the promise of RSS to simplify and hone your areas of interest…

I really admire you, actually, for not following feeds, and it probably proves to me the sense of unease I feel when *not* keeping up is unfounded: you, after all, seem pretty well in touch with what’s going on, and that’s without a massive feed subscription base.

One last thing on Twitter: I have found (re-meeting with JennyB being a recent example) that Twitter allows me to connect with people in the *real* world, and *that* to me is the lesson we should be learning from it as a tool. I don’t know about whether it’ll hit “real” people, but the value is in the real world and not necessarily in the virtual.

re cider: I can’t possibly comment 🙂