Are tweets incomprehensible? If so, does this decrease their value?

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advocatesstudio: Scanning my Twitter flow and it occurs to me that most tweets would be completely unfathomable to someone outside of Twitter. Is this good?

WarLordwrites: @advocatesstudio Twitter has entered that very special place, the jargon is so thick that you need a spirit guide to navigate ;)

richards1000: @advocatesstudio Most of your tweets, or most of the tweets you receive?

advocatesstudio: @richards1000 Precisely! Seriously, I was reading the tweets of those I follow at the time, but it probably applies to mine as well.

KevinChern: @advocatesstudio Unfathomable? How so? I could see all of the bit.ly links and @'s to be a little confusing to non-tweeters, maybe.

advocatesstudio: @WarLordwrites True, which makes me wonder about its ultimate life expectancy as a mainstream means of communication.

advocatesstudio: @KevinChern Try to read yr Twitter stream from POV of someone outside of Twitter. Hard to divorce yr exp. but it seems more than little odd.

labfly: @advocatesstudio that is why we have twitter ;) it is the only place for "tweets"

advocatesstudio: @labfly "Tweets" being definitely their own animal. ;)

KevinChern: @advocatesstudio Haha...Definitely! Kind of like one long stream of conscious from all over the globe!

uMCLE: Surprisingly difficult to step back/view objectively @advocatesstudio @KevinChern read yr stream from POV of someone outside of Twitter.

advocatesstudio: @KevinChern Which is actually what makes it kind of cool, albeit it a little conceptually and practically challenging

CathyGellis: @advocatesstudio If tweet is a reply, I think it's ok if it doesn't make sense to others. But for those that stand alone, should stand alone

advocatesstudio: @CathyGellis True - because a reply entails using the language of the person to whom you are replying, as a matter of proper convention

KevinChern: @advocatesstudio Have you checked out Buzz yet? Sim to Twitter but you can comment on updates. A little more intuitive but some prvcy issues

advocatesstudio: @KevinChern Yes, I have. I like it - more "natural language" like Friendfeed. Not bothered by the privacy issues.

richards1000: @advocatesstudio Thanks. I ask bc there's much talk about "contextless" info in cyberspace; see e.g., Gasser's comment http://bit.ly/cn7GjM

advocatesstudio: Thanks everyone for the first actual discussion I have had on Twitter in a long time. And it was all fairly understandable! ;)