Here is the great advice I was given:

Reasons I use Twitter:

1) A lot of interesting people are talking there. The guru-to-bozo ratio is much more favorable than on Myspace or Facebook.

2) It’s robust against spam in a way that many communication tools are not since you choose who you follow. A twitter spammer quickly finds them self shouting in an empty room

3) It lets me come across interesting content that I don’t find via RSS or email. Oftentimes I find something first on Twitter and then add it to my RSS feeds

4) It’s the preferred method of communication for some people I need to stay in contact with. I never used text messages until I started working with someone who used them a lot - it just made sense to adopt his mode of communication to make things easy. I recently used it to contact an out-of-office co-worker with a burning question and get a response in moments. I could have emailed or called, but I figured Twitter would be quicker.

5) Unlike the examples you list above, it’s multiplatform. In the example above, I tweeted from my computer and my co-worker responded from his phone. I didn’t need to think or care about what platform he was on

6) As you add interesting people to follow, the stream becomes a flow of new and interesting information passing by - sort of ambient music for the intellect. If someone isn’t contributing or is contributing junk, just stop following them.

7) As a marketer it lets me follow conversations about my brand with Tweetscan. That’s in addition to, not replacing, blog and press monitoring

That is what you said then, wonder how many new discoveries you have made? My discoveries have exceed any and all expectations.

You provided great insights and @madgreed65, told me to just try it. Two brilliant guys!

I am grateful to have you in my networks and through Twitter feel as if I have known you for years!