I've been a Twitter-user (http://twitter.com/streffbuddy) for a couple of months now. I say this not to advertise, but to answer all those who simply ask me, and others who use Twitter, "Why?"
Although Twitter markets itself as something that lets others know what you are doing, I've discovered that there are better and more practical applications. Twitter allows people to pass along very brief thoughts and opinions that occur to them at random moments. These might be original, or 're-tweets' that come from other sources.
In a very short time, and while only following a few others on Twitter, I've read a lot of great information and material, much of it very funny, that I never otherwise would have. Most of it is interesting stuff to me, which partly goes to the fact that I'm only going to follow the Tweets of people whom I choose.
In the future I can surely envision using Twitter for business purposes, to remind contacts of what I'm doing or about something newsy in the investment world. In a similar vein, I've used it in the past to let people know that I've made a new post to this blog.
Of course, the catch is to get those people to follow my Tweets. Now that might take some advertising.
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