Mike Butcher - mbites

Twitter is confusing because it blurs the boundaries. Some times it feels like Micro-blogging or micro-publishing. (one to many) Then it's about pinging your friends (one to few). Finally it's almost like group discussion or IRC 2.0 (few to few) except it's hard to tell who's listening and the conversations often appear to be one-sided. I do wish there was something that was a cross between IRC/Skype Group chat and Twitter following/followed by where the groups were formed on the fly but Twitter exposes the logical flaw in that because you often only see one side of the conversation. In the end Twitter is just not very good for conversation. But this does seem to be a need because people keep trying to use it for that.