Agreed. The only time I've seen value in twitter is during times of emergency: my hosting provider goes down and has no other way to communicate than through twitter; people being rappelled from the ski lifts where I ski but there are no news outlets reporting on it so I go to twitter to find out; stuff like that. I remember a Charlie Rose interview with Mark Andreeson a few years back where Andreeson talked about the future of tech and the instant dissemination of news. From what I can see, twitter is the news outlet where the story breaks first.