The Twitter Phenomenon

I just can not see the point of Twittering. The CPL Twitter sites have the same information as the home page, although I suppose nobody can "Tweet" back to the home page. I can see the benefits of the other applications we have looked at but I just do not understand why anyone would want to spend time Twittering. I looked at some of the feeds on the Twitter home page and thought how boring some people's lives must be if they can't find more interesting things to do and think about. I expect it is possible to argue about the immediacy of it and its universal nature but how accurate is it? I gather someone said on Twitter that Gordon Lightfoot had died and everyone believed it until Gordon Lightfoot managed to prove he was still alive. I have to confess that I am never going to Twitter.