So what’s so cool about Twitter?

• It’s focused on only one very simple thing (always a great thing for a piece of software to be)
• It’s great for keeping in touch with friends in a way that requires almost no actual effort (always a roadblock)
• It’s nice to get a sense of folks’ you admire interesting ideas and goings on, without actually having to read their blog all the time, or convince them to be your real friend (except for the bloggers that twitter every post, which is super-lame).

Ok, what’s not as cool?

• It’s focused on only one very simple thing
• Um, it doesn’t always work so good (e.g. cats)

So, why does everyone still use it?

Alas, twitter has going for it the greatest asset available in our attention-limited techno world — stickiness. It was a cool idea originally, so props for that. Jaiku’s a lot better now in terms of features, but who uses Jaiku, that you know? Everyone seems to agree it’s better, so why the F can’t we all just switch? I hereby call for Jaiku Day!

Sorry, just tired of the cats and wishing I could get my delicious links twittered.