All A-twitter (or not)

At first glance, Twitter seems like an endless stream of commercials. And I'm not going to get into the creepy "your followers" thing. One of the only (possibly) useful differences between this and regular blogging seems to be the length of a 'post'. I don't know about anyone else, but if I want to limit my blog post to 140 words, I'll do just that - I don't need to create yet another account somewhere to do my limiting for me. This slight complaint is connected to one of the problems I've been having with all the 2.0 programs I'm learning about. It seems that there are a million sites out there doing a few things that are truly different. RSS readers, Meebo, and microblogging don't appear to me to really offer anything *new*, just different and more complicated ways to do what I'm already doing. I can see how something like Twitter may be useful if someone doesn't want to have a blog, but otherwise it just appears to be yet another account to create for the sake of creating another account. In the end, while I proudly consider myself a geek, I'm a geek that doesn't get into the latest tech fad because it exists - I actually need to have it do something necessary for me.