Twitter is the Paris Hiltoning of the Planet?

This is just too good to miss....Helen Popkin has a marvellous bit in her MSNBC article called "Twitter Nation - nobody cares what you are doing":

Twitter, then, is the latest evidence of the Paris Hiltoning of America. Twitter is always on, always looked at, and at a 140 character limit, doesn’t have the capacity to be either deep or meaningful.

Today America, tomorrow the World.....

Apparently hating Twitter is the "new black" according to Robert Scoble ( As opposed to hating Robert Scoble, which is the new Twitter* )

Actually, it all needs to be kept in perspective...we did a major workshop of serious digerati a few weeks back (the people who "do internet" rather than chatter about it) and only a few hands went up when I asked who had heard of Twitter.

Helen also goes on to compare Twitter to the crystals in Logans Run:

Twitter is the lifeclock crystal implanted in the palm of your hand at birth. Once it starts blinking, it’s your time to renew on Carousel. And nobody ever comes back from Carousel. Admitting you don’t “get” Twitter is like admitting you can’t hear those specialized ring tones only audible to the young. That your crystal is blinking. That you’re no cooler than your parents complaining about “the rap music.” And raging against the blinking of the crystal, or calling Twitter “stupid,” feels a whole lot better than admitting that.

Our view is that although Twitter started off doing an incredibly silly thing, the potential of what it can do (especially given the additional development) is quite interesting. Telcos have beeen earnestly seeking Unified Messaging (UM) solutions for decades, and Twitter has done it very elegantly.

Pity about the name though...."twit" in UK English is another term for idiot.

Broadstuff is of course available on Twitter, over here....so no blinking crystals here - yet

* Actually Robert is a very nice man, I met him in London - and his wife must be even nicer as apparently she won't let him mention tw****r in the house