As for your views on Twitter, I find it a shame that you would write it off so quickly and not experience it fully to decipher it’s benefits. You don’t like hearing about your friends ear problem? It’s simple, don’t follow the guy (but in the words of The Joker, “Why so serious?” – Can you honestly say it ruined your day?). Instead, find people in the industry you work in and follow them, it’s amazing what great little snippets of insight you can gain over even one 24hr period. Need help with something? Beg the question and a lot of the time you’ll have a number of answers and solutions within seconds.

And your comment on financial benefits…Do you not think it commendable that Twitter haven’t gone down the route of Facebook and stuck a bunch of banner ads all over their site? It’s something they could easily do at any point. Well done them I say. Instead, they are taking time to come up with creative ways to introduce a finance model of some sort. It’s been reported even over the last couple of weeks that they may look to charge corporations to use it as a communication channel. If they nail it, and Twitter keeps growing in popularity as rapidly as it has even in 2009, all their concerns about money will be solved overnight. So Kudos to Twitter for taking the harder but more commendable route to finding a solution. I’m confident it will happen for them.

I’ll leave you with this. US President and Statesmen Rutherford B Hayes once said of the telephone, “An amazing invention – but who would ever want to use one?”. Epic fail, don’t you think?

As for its money making potential, who knows? That’s not a defeatist answer, no-one seems to thus far. Perhaps the biggest lesson to learn from Twitter is that ’simple’ can still cut it out there amongst the increasing noise of Facebook and social networking in general.