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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CharlesRyan" data-source="post: 5212433" data-attributes="member: 5265">Like the OP, it took me a while to understand the "point" of Twitter--or more accurately, to understand how it could be useful to me. In the end, I pretty much concur with everything the OP says (even down to his choice of applications--Tweetdeck makes it easy to turn Twitter into a series of coherent conversations).Unlike the OP, I will wax philosophical (briefly) about the "purpose" of Twitter, because I think it helps understand how it can be useful. Forums are about having conversations over time (a given thread usually stays active for a few days; some for a few months or even years). Facebook is similar, and largely about connecting to people from your past. Twitter is about having real-time (or almost real-time) conversations with people that have similar interests, even if you don't know them. It gives some capacity to look into the past (generally only a few hours or days), but mostly it's for seeing what people are saying now or very close to now.For D&D, this means you can be hearing from a designer as he tweets about some design difficulty he's dealing with at the moment, or follow all the TPKs in D&D Encounters. (You can follow individuals, or specific terms, so when a gamer anywhere in the world tags a tweet with #dndenc, you can see it.)What Twitter lacks in depth, it makes up for in immediacy. The connection you have with the people you're talking to is very direct in a way that forums and even Facebook simply can't be.(For the record, my Twitter handle is in my sig!)</blockquote>

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