When Twitter first launched, I looked at the whole thing and I just didn’t get it! I couldn’t understand one simple principle, “Why?”

I started using the service and after following a few people, I sat back waiting for the answer. Nada, Nothing, Zilch! I still didn’t get the whole point of Twitter. I owned the blog that you are reading right now and I used it as a platform to communicate my stories to the world in a lot more than 140 characters, I had multiple IM accounts that I have so wonderfully aggregated using Digsby, I had a Facebook account with “friends” that I knew, “friends” that I met once, “friends” that I didn’t like and “friends” that didn’t deserve the title of “friend” but I knew them none-the-less!

My curiosity and stubbornness prevailed and today, my Twitter account stands tall after 923 updates, 130 followers and me wired into the minds of 158 other Twitter users! I get news faster than BBC can deliver it, I get links of interesting articles faster than I can browse for them myself, I get a live search engine that updates itself faster than Google with a more relevant search result as it is purely user recommended content, I can speak to 130 ppl at once and raise an army within seconds!

Anyway, the point is, the big kahuna at Google (Eric Schmidt, the CEO) has recently (late yesterday afternoon) said that and lemme quote here, “Speaking as a computer scientist, I view all of these as sort of poor man’s email systems.”

Eeeerrhhh, Chyna, don’t be a wet rag, catch a wake up!

Further, he goes on to say,

“In other words, they have aspects of an email system, but they don’t have a full offering. To me, the question about companies like Twitter is: Do they fundamentally evolve as sort of a note phenomenon, or do they fundamentally evolve to have storage, revocation, identity, and all the other aspects that traditional email systems have? Or do email systems themselves broaden what they do to take on some of that characteristic?

I think the innovation is great. In Google’s case, we have a very successful instant messaging product, and that’s what most people end up using.

Twitter’s success is wonderful, and I think it shows you that there are many, many new ways to reach and communicate, especially if you are willing to do so publicly.”

Just give it time dude! Hang in there and you’ll get it! With that said, Eric then went on to advertise Google’s Twitter account, @google!