back in the days when i was actively using twitter (before they dropped im integration and sms notification in my country that is), i used it roughly the same way as you do: basically as a web-based distributed irc chat (/me functionality included...) - minus-one

IM integration? What client were you using? I know Digsby still has Twitter support. - Louis P.

@Louis i'm using gtalk (they dropped native gtalk support 5 months ago http://status.twitter.com/post... i don't really like the idea of using 3d party client only for twitter (then what? - one client for jabber, another client for friendfeed, one more for skype, another one for irc...)) - minus-one

digsby looks cool though :) - minus-one

anyway, they lost me to friendfeed - what twitter has that friendfeed doesn't? userbase? i don't really care for that part - minus-one