It is impossible to watch the news anymore without hearing something about Twitter, the online micro blogging site that allows you to post tiny messages for people to see.  While Twitter is nice to use from time to time to check up on friends or to get messages about upcoming events, I have  not found it to be the incredible tool that those in the media claim it to be.  I started using it as a social tool to keep in touch with friends and family but quickly found that friends and family actually posted through Facebook more often.  I did what most people do after that, I started following news and information people such as Patrick Norton, of TechTV and now Revision3 fame, Chris Pirillo, and columnist John Dvorak.  The problem with this, and I imagine with following politicians and news organizations, is that Twitter only holds a certain amount of comments on a page and people tend to overload that page with messages at a rapid pace.  For instance, Chris Pirillo and Patrick Norton would regularly post so many “tweets” that if I didn’t check Twitter on a constant basis I would miss “tweets” from people I actually new.  The other issue with Twitter is that it only works about 2/3rds of the time.  I have been trying to upload a picture now for the past hour and I keep getting the same message about Twitter being over capacity - something I see at least once every other day.  While I think Twitter could be a really great tool for keeping in touch with people, it has turned into an unreliable service where conversations have become all but impossible.  Because Facebook now has a similar micro message feature, I can foresee it replacing Twitter as the popular destination for those quick updates that Twitter used to be good at.  Twitter will still be popular with media types because they can use it as a tool to send out information about upcoming shows and events, but it feels like Twitter is on its way to becoming an advertising medium and nothing more.