You raise some very valid points here Richard and on the whole I agree with you.

I've recently gone through a Twitter cleansing process, dropping off a whole gang of folk, who although are well know in the Twitter stakes, were not adding any real value to my stream.

I am now hitting a much higher percentage of folk whom I've conversed with and therefore, most likely, shared some common ground.

These though, are not always people I'd go into a project with, although they may be people I'd share similar or project ideas with. In turn the value Twitter is offering me is increasing with each of these cleansing processes.

That said, Twitter is a free tool that people are invited to with as they wish. Should people want to follow a hundred celebrity twitters to find out when they are getting out of the shower or stuck in a lift, then they are free to do so. This doesn't necessarily make them idiots.

I also agree blogs are were the real thought goes in, its a slower more cerebral process blogging. Those that thought Twitter was the end of blogging were just jumping on a popularist bandwagon, there is plenty of space for both of them in the market.

Twitter can be used for many things and that's one of the benefits of the interface that should be celebrated. You choose what enters your feed, you also choose what to do with that information.

It's good to see people whom might otherwise never have spoken sharing and pooling similar ideas on a global instantaneous platform.

Thanks for the post!