Howard Rheingold on the merit of Twitter

For those of you who don't use Twitter, or who use it but still don't see what the big hype around it is all about (like myself), check out this interesting link. The post by Howard Rheingold offers several insights about what Twitter is good for and why. I disagree with one aspect of the post: Even if we accept Rheingold's ideas as valid, it is not necessarily Twitter illiteracy that keeps masses from embracing it - the whole "Twittering thing" might simply not fit everyone's personality...