I agree. At the same time I have enough empathy to see where that comment comes from: It seems twitter has been hyped since its arrival but so far a lot of us cannot understand its appeal despite multiple year-long attempts. Just think what other companies/projects would have given for that kind of year long (and in manys eyes, undeserved) hype : )

The only reason for twitter instead of something else seems to be network effect. In a couple of paticular niches I use google+ and it is, believe me, a whole lot better as long as there are people there. (Of course I am annoyed by the fact that it doesn't have a working API etc etc but then again twitter has made that point mostly irrelevant.)

(OK, a few improvements have surfaced in twitter lately and I am once again interested.)