"Twitter is what you make of it."
If what most people make of it is banal posts and celebrity watching, is it deserving of all the hype?
If what most people make of it is banal posts and celebrity watching, is it deserving of all the hype?
A medium is (un)deserving of 'hype' based on whether it can be used to do anything that appeals to us.
The argument is: do interesting uses of Twitter exist? If they do, the banal is irrelevant, since you never need to see it to access those interesting uses of Twitter.