Twitter: should we consign it to the bin already?

Marketing Profs have a little bit of insight about the saviour of the web: Twitter

"Think of how your friends and relations outside the Silicon Valley bubble use MySpace or Facebook," he says. "Are they putting up blog posts about how to increase site traffic? Commenting on Zappos' brilliant use of Twitter? Or are they commenting on their friend's pictures from their trip to Jamaica last month and posting mildly funny clips they found on YouTube?" Exactly. "So what makes you all think they're going to act any differently on Twitter?"

Half of me says they're right, the other half knows how useful twitter can be. But then I thought the same about Blogger and the like three years ago. And look what's happened with blogging: lolcats...