I’ve not been all that bothered by twitter, and to be quite frank I didn’t really get it.  Recently someone sent me a link to a FireFox plugin called TwitterFox a seriously easy to use browser plugin for Twitter.  Just install it and then the twitter icon appears in the bottom right hand corner of the browser.  Pop in your Twitter username and password and boom!  All your ‘tweets’ are polled by this little tool – the number of latest tweets are displayed when you log in, and every time it makes another call to get the most recent posts.  What’s even better you can use it to directly tweet yourself from the browser.  Very nice!