Mizter T wrote:

'Twitter' is , as you will likely have heard, "all the rage" -
personally I'm just a little sceptical of the whole 'broadcast your
thoughts' thing it brings to the table, but maybe I just haven't seen
the light


In that, it isn't so different from Usenet.

It's just that the immediacy of Twitter allows a far more rapid
dissemination of even less useful information.