But people use facebook to send each other /pictures/ of drinks. And they /pay/ for the pictures too! It’s a toy. And myspace is full of musicians and emos.
Twitter is used for simple information exchange – even straight conversations. People are writing clustering algorithms for it to aid browsing the news, etc. It’s the merging of web, IM, IRC and search and, if only they’d open it up a bit so you didn’t need an account from the one vendor, it will become a significant new method of communicating.
