How do you read Twitter?

[rbcp]

I'm really liking Twitter lately, but I don't feel like I've found the most efficient way to keep up with Twitter posts yet.  I'm currently reading most of them via Digsby, which is an instant messaging program that also shows you Twitter, Myspace and Facebook statuses.  When I'm on vacation or out of town I'll sometimes receive Twitters via SMS on my phone, but I think that would get annoying to have running every day even when I'm at home.

I've tried other Windows applications and Firefox extensions and haven't liked them much.  Digsby is nice, but it seems like I could do better.  Anyone have any suggestions?  Here are links to other Twitter programs:

http://twitter.com/downloads

http://twitter.pbwiki.com/Apps

What would be perfect is if I could just subscribe to the RSS feed of my Twitter friends list.  But Twitter won't allow that.  From what I've read, I think they used to let you do that but for some reason they won't anymore.  I could subscribe to the individual feeds of every person I follow on Twitter, but that would be tedious.  It shouldn't be that difficult.

[rogueclown]

i love texting by twitter, and getting my twitters by text.  i use it some from my computer, but far more often from the phone..  i should probably stick to doing it from my computer from home, but i find it bizarrely fun to use by text wherever i am.

[linear]

i suckered both of you into to twitter, morons.

[rbcp]

What?  I was on Twitter months before you, linear!  I'm so much more of an old school Twitterer than you are.  I've been using this service for 5 or 6 months, you know!

[Tachyon]

I still haven't checked to find out what Twitter is.

[MelloKira]

I still haven't checked to find out what Twitter is.

DON'T!
For once you enter the world of the Twitter, you can never escape it. It consumes you.

[nova]

I still haven't checked to find out what Twitter is.

same here

[Nod]

I refuse to deal with twitter until someone explains what it is. It sounds new and scary and I'll have nothing to do with it until someone can explain it with a simple metaphor that makes it seem all alright.

[Nod]

So, it's like an IM deal that isn't real time? Didn't we have that in the nineties and we called it a "guest book?'

[rogueclown]

but you can do it by TEXT MESSAGE! 

[linear]

twitter is what happens when you Facebook "status" changes meet txt messaging.

[rbcp]

twitter is what happens when you Facebook "status" changes meet txt messaging.

Don't encourage them, they know exactly what Twitter is.  They're just trying to be too cool for it.

[rogueclown]

twitter is what happens when you Facebook "status" changes meet txt messaging.

Don't encourage them, they know exactly what Twitter is.  They're just trying to be too cool for it.

i can't profess to be too cool for twitter when, on the occasions when i do update twitter from computer instead of text message, i update from a client i wrote for the hell of it.  i am pretty sucked in, and i do realise how pathetic i am.

[z3wb]

web 2.0 is gay.

i miss the web 1.0, where the only thing there was to do was hack aol accounts and watch stickdeath cartoons.

[Sidepocket]

web 2.0 is gay.

i miss the web 1.0, where the only thing there was to do was hack aol accounts and watch stickdeath cartoons.

Yea, and those 22k modems that took five years to boot up while it made sounds like it was giving birth, and you missed those phone calls that your sister died because you tied up the line and...

Oh yea, I forgot. Web 1.0 sucked.