The Grumpy Editor's Twitter experience

The worst part is trying to follow conversations.
Picking a random link from earlier in these comments to try to gauge how someone is using twitter, we see this: http://twitter.com/zooko/status/24610291148
It takes at four clicks on (unmarked, small, gray!) links to get to an obscured shortened URL which points to a story that could have almost fit into 140 characters by itself.