Twitter is three things:

1. Really fast platform-agnostic publishing (browser, SMS, IM, etc)
2. Yet another ‘friend’ collecting site
3. Yet another centralized, free, publishing service
4. Slow, almost to the point of unusable

As you can see from my list, I’m only excited about the first one (inspiring the qspress script). I’d love for you to receive the posts at this or any of my blogs however you’d like – browser, voice mail, text message, IM, email. And I think the character-limits should be placed on the receiving end, not on the publishing end. This platform-agnostic publishing is why the NYTimes and other TwitterRivers Dave Winer is working on are interesting.

So, no, I don’t want another place to publish (another account to remember, another cms to learn, etc), but I do want my writing to be wherever you want to read it. It’d be great to extend the TwitterRiver notion and send any Twitter-originated comments back to the original blog post.

All that said, yes, I do have a Twitter account. Feel free to follow me.

Lastly, a tip for following the Twitter buzz @ Technorati: if you can replace ‘weblog’ for ‘twitter’ in any ‘twitter sucks’ article and it still holds, the author missed the point.

“The reaction to Twitter mirrors the initial reaction to weblogs…the same tired ‘this is going to ruin the web’ and ‘who cares what you ate for dinner’ arguments.” – Jason Kottke