Twitter v. Facebook

I've noticed a trend in both the media and the people I hang out with to be dismissive of Twitter as a place where people share the mundane (e.g. what color t-shirt Ashton Kutcher is wearing today) and it kind of bothers me. The longer I use Twitter the more I begin to rely on it. I don't know if i was an early adopter in most circles, but within my group of friends I was. I've noticed that the kind of mundane information that my friends complain about is very commonplace on Facebook (a place where many more of them have accounts) and the longer I use Twitter the more I rely on it for information that is important to me. Perhaps it is a result of news outlets adopting Twitter as a place to quickly distribute information. It may have something to do with the ability to follow people who aren't following you. Whatever it is, I feel like my friends are missing out on an opportunity to get the latest information, while saving themselves the time they spend looking for it. Oh...and if you are waiting for the next Britney or aplusk tweet, you're missing the point. Unfortunately the numbers indicate that you 'point missers' are also in the majority.