I already know that there’s the “Twitter” and the “anti-Twitter,” and perhaps this fits better in response to Muhammad’s contrarian post. I personally think that it’s interesting to learn more about people than just from their blogs (or for those who don’t have blogs, a little more about them — period). Right now, that’s where the hype is for me. I can read Scoble and know Scoble beyond Scobleizer and the 93249294 blogs he’s mentioned in. It’s actually kind of neat to see. They really are microblogs, and above all (for now), really interesting conversations.

A lot of bloggers have a “personal” side that just is not reflected in their professional blogging. That’s what is appealing to me, to see people in a totally different light. Further, a lot of new services and announcements from the top dogs are being posted on Twitter, so you can get real good news fast.

To each his own, I guess. But it’s funny (and cool) that when I say that I’m about to eat lunch, someone will actually ask me what I’m making. :)

For those people who have IM, this isn’t much different, and I would say that it’s very much like a chat room on the net. But not everyone uses IM/chat anymore, and you really can filter out noise if you want to here.

I like that David’s stuff is completely off the cuff and not polished to a high sheen.

D–Just keep on writing in your own special way and don’t worry about the spelling. If you ever published anything that didn’t have typos, I would seriously wonder if it was you who wrote it!

And thanks for the Twitter insight. Now that I’ve started using it, I can completely understand where you’re coming from, although I can’t ever see Twitter replacing blogging.