Normobs not quite getting Twitter as yet

Just how easy is Twitter to ‘get’ when you’re a normob? This NY Times piece highlights that it isn’t that simple — something I’ve been observing with quite a few people over the past weeks.

Link: If You Can’t Let Go, Twitter – New York Times

‘The site was confusing and I didn’t have time to figure out how to activate my cellphone,” said my middle daughter, Ella, 16.

‘I thought that e-mail from Twitter was spam, so I deleted it,” said my youngest daughter, Clementine, who is 10 and an enthusiastic reader of spam.

‘It’s too complicated,” Zoe said.

(Via Dave Winer’s twitter)