Twitter

Until recently I hadn't used Facebook much. It wasn't any use to me, but circumstances have changed a little and I now use it a bit more. I suppose that's progress.
But, I still don't get Twitter. I was sitting there the other day and thought that I should stop mentally knocking it and join. So I did.
I started to 'follow' certain people to get a feel for it but found myself getting incredibly bored. The posts I read were really too short to make sense, too random and full of references to other posts and links. Lots of posts were nothing more than adverts.
The whole experience smacked of laziness. Thinking about some of the posts and folks I read, it occurred to me that they weren't written by the individual but by the individual's publicity machine.
I visited a couple of times and haven't been back yet but I'll try some more because social phenomena like this need to be understood. Even if it isn't understood by those who twit tweet.