I may be in the minority but I've pretty much stopped using Twitter entirely. I got sick of the weird code language everyone uses. I don't understand it. I find the trending topics are often pop-culture centric or just flat out cryptic. I don't understand probably 25-30% of the weird one sided conversations I see. It just seems like non-sense since I can't see it in context. Even with a very small number of people I was following I found a number of individuals posted so often that I would have to go back 3 or 4 pages just to catch-up. On top of that 90% of my followers were SPAM so I just started ignoring the e-mails from Twitter about a new follower. Waste of my time to go find out it's yet another spammer or self-seriving individual who offers nothing but self promotion.

I'm not suggesting they're doomed or anything but just giving all the hypers a little perspective on why I find it to be basically unusable. Twitter has some major, massive, usability problems in my opinion. As it has grown it has become a mess -- the UI has not kept up with the inflation of users & posts. Content is not accessible due to arbitrary limits on posting that requires people to use excessive abbreviations and acronyms. There's a whole lexicon behind some of the most basic features that is not immediately obvious.