For the longest time I thought Twitter was dead stupid. My first impression was "Why the hell do I care that Steve Smith (fictional name) just rented a video game at blockbuster?". I think before Twitter really exploded, the content on there was typically dumb because people didn't really know what to say. Twitter's power, IMHO, can be summed up in two main points:

• Connectivity. It works on your cell phone, IM and the web. Heck, there is even a nifty Adobe AIR application for it (tweetr).
• Tweets are SHORT, which in many cases causes people to condense their thoughts into a valuable nugget of knowledge. I think that's cool, because the way the whole social web works today is a bit verbose.

If you can manage to get all your friends on Twitter ( I haven't, I know too many non-geeks who barely "get" IM... ), you can basically IM all of them at the same time -- broadcast style, y'hear? What's good about this? Well, info dissemination without expectation for replies. I like hearing what everyone is up to, I just don't always care to discuss it with them. Twitter is perfect for that.

Anyway, those are my main thoughts on Twitter today.