Twitter and Merchants of Cool

Twitter:
1. Twitter is not as bad as first impression would suggest.
2. I have never used twitter myself, so it is difficult to think about it personally. I don't agree or disagree with anything the writer mentions about twitter, because I have no experience with it. I also do not believe I have any friends or family members who use it (or at least none have mentioned it to me) so it has never really come up in conversation. There was one quote in the article though, that really struck me: "We don't think it at all moronic to start a phone call with a friend by asking how her day is going. Twitter gives you the same information without your even having to ask." Isn't that part of being a friend? Caring? If somebody is curious about my life and bothers to ask me what I have been doing, it is an indicator that they care about me, if not, otherwise. I kind of like the subtle social indicator of interest.
3. As I mentioned before, I do not use twitter and have never in the past either. I have no relationship with twitter, social or professional.
Merchants of Cool:
1. There is actually a job position called "cool hunter".
2. Sprite is still a popular soft drink and has a relationship with hip-hop... I haven't seen anyone drink Sprite is years.
3. TRL stands for Total Request Live- have never seen that show and knew nothing of what it is about.
4. 13-year-old girls "party" and grind with boys.
5. How few record labels there are- makes me wonder about some of the "under ground" hip-hop I listen to like Binary Star, who are openly opposed to main stream hip/hop society.