What Makes People All A Flutter About Twitter?

Going through the processes of my day to day life, I find that I hear about one website increasingly and more often then any other website that is probably known to exist. Twitter. As I started to hear and see twitter on the sides of blog posts and videos, being discussed on talk shows, and reading many random articles online that say "Follow me on Twitter!" I decided to investigate what made people "all a twitter".

To be able to investigate such a thing, I had to sign up to the website myself. After browsing around for a while I found... well I didn't find all that much actually. Twitter, the website that is causing people such an uproar of talk, is nothing more than a constant status updater. This website has the same exact thing that every other social networking site has. All that is asked to do is answer the question on the front page when you first log in, "What's Happening?". It has to be the most simple question in the world to answer.

I continued to look around and found replies linked back to the person that had first posted a status update using the @ symbol. Many of the users that are on twitter also use the pound (#) symbol infront of many of the words that they type out before they post. Some of these words with the random pound symbol was used enough to achieve a spot in the Trending Topics sidebar.

Who uses this?
I have noticed that just about every human alive in the United States uses this. Of course that is an exaggeration, but it is heard about everywhere. Celebrities have it, shows have it, Youtube icons have it, ordinary people have it, and pretty much everyone else that craves attention or wants something of theirs to be noticed.

Why would anyone use this?
Most "twitter updates" I see are of random, unimportant, nonsense that people want the millions of other viewers on twitter to see. Anything that anyone seems to find important enough to post is tweeted including videos, the current song that they are listening to (which is them updated again 3 to 5 minutes later), or any sort of thought that happens to pop into their head at the time which, to me, causes those people to seem like a group of finches lined up on a branch. Aside from that music artists can promote sales on their albums and products, Youtube icons can post a new video that they released, and bloggers can post the link to their blog or to their important blog posts. So it can be useful for getting whatever you want out to a large audience in a quick amount of time.

Overall twitter has the simplicity of updating your facebook, myspace, or other social networking site status in 140 characters or less, but with posting the information to a large audience of lack-of-content info junkies. I think that people are just addicted to the constant flow of unimportant gossip and information (that won't be useful tomorrow because a new trending topic will overhaul the others) and are too busy to check anything more than a status update.
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Now that you know My Thoughts On... Twitter, I want to know: What do you think about Twitter? Is it useful or is it pointless? Leave a comment (can be 140 characters or a long paragraph) telling me what you think.