Twitter --- Familiarity and Meaning

In twitter you have followers but these followers are just people who add you as a friend. The only connection you have with these followers is their post but these are somewhat removed and seem to not really have substantive meaning. Clive Thompson alluded to this in his Wired magazine article- he said you should do twitter with friends- I can see the validity in this sentiment now. Facebook provides a function called writing on someones wall- this application is basically that one function of Facebook. The limitation of twitter is the absence of any real connection to the people that are posting. It is social but not remarkable and therefore not important and forgettable.