Twitter - A fad?

I've been thinking about this recently, and i'm coming to the conclusion that twitter is pretty much a waste of peoples time, and i mean a real waste. I have messed around with it for a couple of months, and really all it does is build links as far as i can see, and not very good ones at that. Now maybe i'm not putting enough into it, but i don't have the time, and neither do most other people, especially if they are running their own business.

I suppose i should be able to make up my own mind, but in conversation yesterday with a far more experienced "Internet Scientist" (i just made that up) than me it dawned on me that many others feel the same.

Think about what you get out of twitter. If you love gosip or have massive amounts of time for link building etc then it really could be worth it for you. Otherwise forget about it, it will only take time out of your day, for no good reason.

In short, what i think, Twitter is highly unlikely to make you money.