When I first signed up to Twitter, I was getting all of the messages delivered to my phone. It made me feel popular, like when we were in Prague and communicated with our friends primarily through text messages since every other phone-type communication was payable by the minute. But pretty soon I realized the economic folly of that, since I get only a fixed number of texts per month, and I started just keeping up with them online.
All except for Dan and Audrey's Uncornered Market feed.
There are just a very limited number of people in the world who can send you text messages like this:
Barely recovering from self-inflicted death march from Kazakh mountains. Copter airlift looked likely. Rappelling down waterfall = escape. 11:59 AM September 03, 2007 from web
How awesome is that? Not the near death, mind, but the sheer adventure of it all. While I'm Twittering about finding my checkbook and late newspapers, they're eating Armenian lavash and wrangling visas from reluctant Tajiks. It's totally worth the price of the text message. I highly advise you to follow them, at least virtually.