The reason Twitter owns casual information is based entirely on the spartan feature set they’ve chosen to provide to their users. You can add friends, but the total lack of presence information about the people in your network means you’ve no clue whether or not they’re actually going to read a thing that you type, so you filter yourself. You can’t depend on the information getting to anyone, so you don’t send essential information. […]
Twitter is an informational yard sale. You simply never know when that off-the-cuff comment you toss will alter a person’s day.
A very good rationalization of my gut feeling that offering more features, like Pownce does, does not help.
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