Rex Hammock tries to explain Twitter which is virtually impossible to do, but he does a pretty good job of it.

Like the Internet itself, Twitter is hard to explain because it doesn’t really have a point. And it has too many points. Here’s what I mean: All it does is provide a common-place to relay short messages to a group of people who agree to receive your messages. Here’s the second part of what i mean: When you stop thinking those short messages aren’t limited to “I’m about to get on the elevator” but can be eye-witness accounts of breaking news stories or bursts of business-critical intelligence, or warnings that a gun-man is loose on campus, or shared conversations about political debates you and your friends are watching on TV, the possibilities of what can be done using Twitter becomes amazingly confusing — I think in a good way.

I find that Twitter is pretty effective in getting a message out fast (an example would be morning traffic or breaking news), it can be silly and it can be annoying at times as is life. It also can promote your blog.

How does one describe Twitter? Go read Rex’s post and it might give you some insight about it all.