Twitter started as a microblogging platform for publishing short statements that others would read not necessarily realtime. The concept of @replies was not even a feature, it was just a habit created entirely by the community to make conversation easier.

Microblogging is boring, and I don’t actually care what you are doing except in the rare cases that it is funny or otherwise entertaining. If you are always answering the question “what are you doing?” when you use twitter, you are doing it wrong. Twitter doesn’t actually become interesting or useful until there are shared conversations going on.

jasonpjason 40+ woman next to me is checking facebook on her blackberry. this is the best of all possible centuries.
cbfx @jasonpjason why are 40 or more women next to _you_? Jk, woulda been cool if you said “women” but you didn’t and botched my joke.
laotralamismaмебели @cbfx lol- I had been thinking ‘that’s a lot of blackberries’. =]
ehagen @cbfx @jasonpjason I think he means age 40+. GG
jasonpjason @ehagen et al, you’re all right, I meant 40+ 40+ women
cbfx @ehagen god damnit. @laotralamisma we think and probably move alike. You enjoy the tango? VAMANOS A BAILAR!
laotralamisma @ehagen @jasonpjason @cbfx I like this conversation. Let’s hang out.