That's exactly why Twitter doesn't offer much to people beyond current users. It's useful if you are in marketing and media, but if your job doesn't require that you monitor Twitter, and you are trying to juggle that and/or a family, you simply don't have time to be checking Twitter. Things come and go so quickly on Tiwtter that you've missed them.

If you want to communicate with people, email, phone, in-person, text, and chat get the job done.

I know a lot of people who use Facebook. In contrast to Twitter, it works for them because it allows them to catch up WHEN they have time, which is often later in the evening after their kids have gone to bed. Twitter, on the other hand, demands real time attention, as if any of us really wants one more thing demanding that we pay attention to it.

That's exactly why Twitter doesn't offer much to people beyond current users. It's useful if you are in marketing and media, but if your job doesn't require that you monitor Twitter, and you are trying to juggle that and/or a family, you simply don't have time to be checking Twitter. Things come and go so quickly on Tiwtter that you've missed them.

If you want to communicate with people, email, phone, in-person, text, and chat get the job done.

I know a lot of people who use Facebook. In contrast to Twitter, it works for them because it allows them to catch up WHEN they have time, which is often later in the evening after their kids have gone to bed. Twitter, on the other hand, demands real time attention, as if any of us really wants one more thing demanding that we pay attention to it.