The Art of Microblogging

So I was listening to TWiT today on TWiTLive. As usual, Leo and Dvorak went into a discussion about Twitter, the microblogging web application. After hearing about it again and again (and again), and seeing how it’s the microblogging platform everybody uses, I browsed over to Twitter to creat an account of my own. I don’t see why anyone uses this service.

Every “tweet”, and every reply, is put into one linear thread of jarbled text. It’s practically impossible to see what is a response to what. To add, the website doesn’t look “web 2.0″ in the least. Jaiku and Pownce at least break your entries into threads that make replies extremely obvious. Am I missing something with Twitter, or is it really that bad? Is Twitter just the Myspace of microblogging? I just don’t get it.