Will Twitter Ever Be Used by Anyone Other than Silicon Valley Nerds?

Twitter, a cross-platform messaging system just received a second round of funding from several prominent VCs. I'm assuming the funding was a good seven figure number and this places a pretty multiple on the young company.

Now, if you're wondering what the heck Twitter is and what it does join the crow. If you read the Silicon Valley Blogs they have been abuzz about the company for months and many have described it as the next big app. It might be. I checked out the site several weeks ago, signed up, and thought about using it. At the time, I think I had some inkling of its usefulness, but like a dream, that inkling has faded into oblivion.

I want to know if anyone outside of Silicon Valley has used Twitter. They report having 300,000 users, of whom I'm sure the majority are concentrated in the Silicon Valley region. Will someone outside of the tech, nerd digirati please tell me if this is useful and how you use it? What problem does it solve? And who is using it?

I'm not asking this to be dismissive or snarky to Twitter. Clearly they have captured someone's attention and 300,000 users isn't something to sneeze at. But I'm still unsure whether this product is going be received well outside of the confines of Silicon Valley.

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