Twitter is not the communication tool, it’s a communication tool.

It’s good for broadcast messaging to an opt-in audience. It’s good for interacting with your audience. It’s not good at avoiding repetitive information.

We need an application that knows when we’ve seen an update or link and blocks all repetitive instances of that same message.

That would go a long way toward cutting down on the inbox overload.

We also need an efficient way to get updates from the people we’re following without having to be “plugged in” all the time. Without visiting the profiles of each of the people I’m following, I have no way of knowing whether I missed some important update while I was offline.

I know what Chris Brogan would say, that part of the serendipity of Twitter. But I’d like something a little more efficient than serendipitous.