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After spending this past week at FOWA, I still don’t get Twitter.

I have like 1,000 following, friends, updates, messages, whatever, I still don’t get the point. If I’m not sitting at my desk watching the stream go by, it’s utterly useless. If I have a question, I ask it on LinkedIN. If I care to tell my friends what’s going on, I post it to Facebook, etc.

An interesting poll on Read Write Web asks if Twitter will ever go mainstream or be adopted by your parents, and to that I say, simply, “no”.

Products like Twitter are for a niche base, and a niche base that isn’t really the most desirable audience. The same guys that are on Digg are using Twitter, and these guys ain’t the coveted “young male demo”. They’re the technophile, wikipedia-writing uber geeks. No offense to those of you out there, the very fact that I’m writing this post probably classifies me in that category as well.

I’m going to be doing a followup post about web 2.0 niche products and their overall adoption for the mainstream as a followup to this, so stay posted.

Also, be sure to add me on Twitter ! ::wink wink::

…seriously though, add me — or at least on Linkedin, a real network