Twitter's kind of like a message board that, instead of filtering by categories or topics, you filter by people. So you can also imagine, the more people you find interesting or to interact with, the more addicting it becomes.

@NathanSnell

Could you give some detail?

Doesn't Twitter demand at least some time and attention? From what I've seen, most of what shoots past is astonishing in its lack of content and value.

So, while some posts may be useful, I don't see that the results justify the attention required.

Is there some preferred way to avoid the drivel and catch only the good stuff?

here is the workflow : 1- create a twitter account 2- find people you already know on twitter and follow them (try googling their name + twitter) 3- setup alerts on topics you like (hint : setup an alert for your geographic area) 4- manage people you follow : if somebody sucks, unfollow him. if your receive an alert, follow the user who sent the twit for some time and decide later if you want keep following him.

after some time (about six months) you'll find only interesting topics on your twitter feed.

this is techmeme the twitter way.

Mine is http://twitter.com/manvsmachine

Just loaded twhirl, which runs on Adobe AIR. Twitter is fun for doing neat things with. Check out "Foamee" for pseudo-beer-sharing fun.

Twitter reminds me of listening to a police scanner, that said, there's usually some interesting things you can pick up.

:-) (it's just a prototype, tossed it together in a couple of hours...)

It's generally just random musings, but some VC tidbits and tech news mixed in.

http://twitter.com/truebosko

I got it a long time ago but started using it very recently.

Woop. Let's go Twitter-verse.

but I'm not (yet) in the hype.