To Twitter or not to Twitter?

Hmm, I don't know how I feel about Twitter.  Sure, I tweet, and I follow.  And I've been exposed to some info, links, and articles that I wouldn't have found otherwise.  But the whole shabang seems more like a global competition to see who can be the wittiest in 140 words or less; and frankly, I'm just not up to the twask.  Also, I don't really like the whole reply system.  If I don't check Twitter for several days, I have to search through all the tweets to see if anyone @-ed at me, and it's usually a let down.  

I say all of this, but I'm still going to spend 12-15 minutes on it every week.

As far as the witty competition goes, Mindy Kaling and Michael Ian Black always make me-dare I say it?-laugh out loud.  Jimmy Fallon is an over-zealous tweeter.  I think he's calming down though. Hopefully, or I'll have to de-follow him.  Sorry Jimmy.

Some twings I've been pondering:

• Is it an unspoken rule that celebs are only allowed to follow other celebs?  How do their normal friends feel about that?
• Do celebs' follow-to-follower ratios dictate how cool and/or funny they are?  Do they worry about how following Levar Burton might make them look?  (The answer is "Awesome," by the way.) 
  
• Is everyone always thinking about one-liners to tweet just like we all judge every photo taken as a potential Facebook picture?  I think that's happening.